Julian Barnes Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. January 19, 1946
Birthday: January 19
Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We are all lost at see, washed between hope and despair, hailing something that may never come to rescue us. Catastrophe has become art; but this is no reducing process. It is freeing, enlarging, explaining. Catastrophe has become art: that is, after all, what it is for.
source: Julian Barnes (2010). “A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters”, p.137, Random House
topic: Art, Ambition, Dark, Lost At Sea, Hatred For Love, Hope And Despair
