About Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes, born on January 19, 1946, in Leicester, England, is a highly acclaimed British novelist known for his intellectual depth, narrative experimentation, and philosophical explorations. His works often blur the lines between fiction and reality, blending history, memory, and personal reflection. With a career spanning several decades, Barnes has become one of the most respected voices in contemporary literature, earning prestigious awards, including the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sense of an Ending in 2011.
353 Powerful Julian Barnes Quotes to Inspire You
Here are 353 Powerful quotes by Julian Barnes on various topics to inspire you.
8. “You’re still in it. You’ll always be in it. No, not literally. But in your heart. Nothing ever ends, not if it’s gone that deep. You’ll always be walking wounded. That’s the only choice, after a while. Walking wounded, or dead. Don’t you agree?”
Julian Barnes
Memory, Pain, Love, Wounds, Survival
13. “When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can’t make up their minds. Perhaps it’s a way of admitting that things can’t ever bear the same certainty again.”
Julian Barnes Youth, Seasons, Change, Uncertainty, Time
21. “We live on the flat, on the level, and yet – and so – we aspire. Groundlings, we can sometimes reach as far as the gods. Some soar with art, others with religion; most with love. But when we soar, we can also crash. There are few soft landings. We may find ourselves bouncing across the ground with leg-fracturing force, dragged towards some foreign railway line. Every love story is a potential grief story. If not at first, then later. If not for one, then for the other. Sometimes, for both.”
Julian Barnes Aspiration, Love, Art, Religion, Grief
26. “Yes it was, but as I said, it depended on where – and who – you were. If you’ll excuse a brief history lesson: most people didn’t experience “the sixties” until the seventies. Which meant, logically, that most people in the sixties were still experiencing the fifties – or, in my case, bits of both decades side by side. Which made things rather confusing.”
Julian Barnes History, Experience, Perception, Time, Confusion
29. “The ability to see and examine himself; the ability to make moral decisions and act on them; the mental and physical courage of his suicide. “He took his own life” is the phrase; but Adrian also took charge of his own life, he took command of it, he took it in his hands – and then out of them. How few of us – we that remain – can say that we have done the same? We muddle along, we let life happen to us, we gradually build up a store of memories.”
Julian Barnes Self-Examination, Moral Choices, Courage, Life Control, Memories
