A Quote by Djuna Barnes

Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

Djuna Barnes

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Been Case Life Life Is Life Is Pain Nasty Only Painful Short

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Djuna Barnes
American - Writer
June 12, 1892 - June 18, 1982

Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

Djuna Barnes

For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.

Djuna Barnes

Girls, when you walk down the street, just stay nasty. Please stay nasty for me because that's how I freak out. So stay nasty and be nasty and have a beautiful time.

Ol' Dirty Bastard

What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

Henry Miller

One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.

Anthony Powell

My father once said there's a correlation between a nation's cuisine and its people: England, nice people, nasty food; France, nice food, nasty people; Spain, nice people, nasty food; Italy, nice people, nice food; and Germany, nasty food, nasty people. And I've always thought that there must be something terribly wrong with the German character - and that there is, really.

Martin Amis

I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day.

Bridget Fonda

I ate the Green Monster. It tasted pretty nasty. It was pretty painful.

Torii Hunter

Growth can be painful, change can be painful but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow it only empties today of it strengths

Charles Spurgeon

My dad used to get to the nastiest letters. But somebody had to take the time to type it, stamp it, send it to him, send it to the radio station. And I mean nasty stuff. It's not like nasty people with nasty opinions just popped up out of nowhere.

Joe Buck

Life is nasty, brutish, and short

Thomas Hobbes

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

If you're nasty to me in my place of business, I'm going to be really nasty back.

Alexis Stewart

There are a lot of horror films out there that are nasty, but what's nasty isn't necessarily scary.

James Watkins

Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?