You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Quote by Virginia Woolf
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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Virginia Woolf Quotes
- The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
- The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
- Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
- Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
- It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
- For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
- There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
- This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
- The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
- For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
Best Quotes
- I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.
- Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
- There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.
- Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.
- He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
- Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
- The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.
- We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
- Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
- A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.