It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Quote by Virginia Woolf
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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
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Virginia Woolf Quotes
- This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
- The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
- If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
- It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
- When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
- Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
- It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
- We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
- A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
- The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
Best Quotes
- My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.
- Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'
- I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this it just doesn't feel right at my age.
- When I was 8 years old, I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school.
- The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.
- In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
- I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.
- Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
- Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.