53 Quotes by Virginia Woolf about life
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When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have managed things better--her husband; money; his books. But for her own part she would never for a single second regret her decision, evade difficulties, or slur over duties
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So the being grows rings; identity becomes robust. What was fiery and furtive like a fling of grain cast into the air and blown hither and thither by wild gusts of life from every quarter is now methodical and orderly and flung with a purpose--so it seems.
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In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June.
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How could one leap on the back of life and wring its scruff?
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Let us not take it for granted that life exists more in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.
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Lazy and indifferent the heron returns; the sky veils her stars; then bares them
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Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then—our friends are not able to finish their stories.
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We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.
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Life is a dream. 'Tis waking that kills us.
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