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

“Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.”

“Septimus has been working too hard" - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought.”

“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.”

“Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?”

“For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.”

“My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.”

“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”

“You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.”

“My love is pizza shaped. Won’t you have a slice? It’s circular, so there’s enough to go around.
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“It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the last moment. But I tell you there is no such message, no such home -- only the millions of last moments . . . nothing more. Our history is an aggregate of last moments.”

“I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.”