53 Quotes by Virginia Woolf about life

  • Author Virginia Woolf
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    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.

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  • Author Virginia Woolf
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    I pass from hot to cold in an instant, without any reason; I am puzzled by parts of my character. And I haven’t said anything very much, or given you any notion of the terrific high waves, and the infernal deep gulfs, on which I mount and toss;

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  • Author Virginia Woolf
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    Millions of things came back to her. Atoms danced apart and massed themselves. But how did they compose what people called a life?

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  • Author Virginia Woolf
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    This fiddling and drifting and not impressing oneself upon anything – this always refraining and fingering and cutting things up into little jokes and facetiousness – that's what's so annihilating. Yet given little money, little looks, no special gift – what can one do? How could one battle? How could one leap on the back of life and wring its scruff?

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