Virginia Woolf Quotes, Sadness Quotes, People Quotes

There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure.

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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.

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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.

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As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me -- But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.

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The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life.

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So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball

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Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

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And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely.

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In certain favorable moods, memories -- what one has forgotten -- come to the top. Now if this is so, is it not possible -- I often wonder -- that things we have felt with great intensity have an existence independent of our minds; are in fact still in existence? And if so, will it not be possible, in time, that some device will be invented by which we can tap them?

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The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on fields wide-eyed and watchful and entirely careless of what was done or thought by the beholders.

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Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing.

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Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?

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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

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One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting emotions, but only whims and vanities, eddying them now this way, now that.

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Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of 52 Tavistock Square but I open my eyes and exclaim, "Good God! Here I am again!" not always with pleasure, often with pain; sometimes in a spasm.

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I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

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Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning?

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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

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In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about each other in two seconds at the utmost, and it now remained only to fill in such unimportant details as what they were called; where they lived; and whether they were beggars or people of substance.

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Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.

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