“Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.”
More from Virginia Woolf on Life
“. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.”
“When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless.”
“Let us not take it for granted that life exists more in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.”
“But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.”
“When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.”
“They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought[.]”
“Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.”
“I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.”
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
Others on Life
Jonathan Safran Foer
22 quotes“One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second”
Mitch Albom
18 quotes“Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.”
Cormac McCarthy
14 quotes“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn...”
Joseph Campbell
14 quotes“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive...”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
13 quotes“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.”
Paulo Coelho
13 quotes“And when I think about it, I guess it is true that people always arrive at the right moment at the place where someone a...”
Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Surviving Is the only warWe can afford”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control....”