“. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.”
More from Virginia Woolf on Life
“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.”
“Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.”
“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“Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.”
Mitch Albom
18 quotes“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he h...”
Cormac McCarthy
14 quotes“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“Admire exult despise laugh weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smi...”
Joseph Campbell
14 quotes“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you ar...”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.”
Paulo Coelho
13 quotes“I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
13 quotes“Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your...”
Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”