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The quote says grief can make life feel chaotic and patternless. It can also make a person stop believing that order or meaning exists at all. In other words, loss can affect both what we see and what we trust.
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Originally said in English.
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About Julian Barnes
English essayist, novelist and short story writer
Julian Barnes is an English essayist, novelist, and short story writer. He is known for work that moves across fiction and essays, with a style that has made him a notable presence in contemporary English literature. His writing spans novels, short stories, and nonfiction essays, showing a range that has kept him widely read. On this site he is represented by 140 quotes, reflecting the reach of his work and the enduring interest in his prose.
More from Julian Barnes (140 quotes) →More quotes by Julian Barnes
- “Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our em…”Julian Barnes
- “It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I prefe…”Julian Barnes
- “When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it easier for…”Julian Barnes
- “Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. Art does not exist for art's sake: it exists fo…”Julian Barnes
More Grief quotes
- “Bereavement seemed to work on him as a kind of blanket allergy, making him edgy and irritable to all the outs…”Peter R. Pouncey
- “But we have, if not our understanding, our own experience, and it feels to me sealed, inviolable, ours. We ha…”Mark Doty
- “I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I res…”Wendell Berry
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Books by Julian Barnes
Flaubert's Parrot
1984
England, England
1999
The Sense of an Ending
2011
Arthur and George
2005
Love, etc
1994