"Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
More by Virginia Woolf
“Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more right to exist than a table that needs a wad of paper under one leg in order to stand steady.”
“To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.”
“There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death.”
More on Meaning
“A man has to BE something; he has to matter.”
“An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.”
“Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely? All this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely?”