Virginia Woolf Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
Virginia Woolf quotes and sayings page 5 (deceased author born on Jan 25, 1882). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 86 we have for her.
“It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.”
“If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.”
“Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?”
“Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.”
“The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.”
“We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.”
“Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.”
“The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”
“One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.”
“I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.”
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