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Explore more quotes by Virginia Woolf
"Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?"
"For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground."
"For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how many different people are there not - Heaven help us - all having lodgment at one time or another in the human spirit?"
"They disagreed always about this, but it did not matter. She liked him to believe in scholarships, and he liked her to be proud of Andrew whatever he did."
"But how are you going to get out, into the world of other people? That is your problem now, if I may hazard a guess - to find the right relationship, now that you know yourself, between the self that you know and the world outside. It is a difficult problem. No living poet has, I think, altogether solved it."
"No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes."
"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
"What the fissure through which one sees disaster? The circle is unbroken; the harmony complete. Here is the central rhythm; here the common mainspring. I watch it expand, contract; and then expand again. Yet I am not included."
Exlpore more Childhood quotes
"It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?"
"We were still children and residing in the mosque from morning to evening. We were about to turn into monsters."
"I do not remember asking adults about anything, except as a last resort."
"A child develops best when, like a young plant, he is left undisturbed in the same soil. Too much travel, too much variety of impressions, are not good for the young, and cause them as they grow up to become incapable of enduring fruitful monotony."
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