Philosophy Quote by Virginia Woolf — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.”

“It seemed now as if, touched by human penitence and all its toil, divine goodness had parted the curtain and displayed behind it, single, distinct, the hare erect; the wave falling; the boat rocking, which did we deserve them, should be ours always. But alas, divine goodness, twitching the cord, draws the curtain; it does not please him; he covers his treasures in a drench of hail, and so breaks them, so confuses them that it seems impossible that their calm should ever return or that we should ever compose from their fragments a perfect whole or read in the littered pieces the clear words of truth. For our penitence deserves a glimpse only; our toil respite only.”

“Yes yes yes I do like you. I am afraid to write the stronger word.”

“Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)”

“Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”

“Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?”

“A miracle is often the willingness to see the common in an uncommon way.”

“لو كنت شيعيا لأيدت المظاهرات.. ولو كنت سنيا لتوجست منها... لا أتمنى أن أكون سنيا في دولة شيعية.. ولا أن أكون شيعيا في الخليج.. لكني لا أخشى أن أكون بوذيا في بريطانيا..”

“Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.”

“To philosophise is to learn how to die.”

“Logika adalah keadilan dan dialektika adalah kebijaksanaan”

“Everything, no matter how beautiful, is only with us for awhile.”