"With my cheek leant upon the window..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep.”

“To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.”

“Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six.”

“How slowThis old moon wanes! she lingers my desires,Like to a stepdame, or a dowager,Long withering out a young man's revenue.”

“Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.”

“Lovers ever run before the clock”

“Tell him to live by yes and no - yes to everything good, no to everything bad.”

“There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so perfectly symbolical of human life,--now climbing the hills, now descending into the vales. From the summits he beholds the heavens and the horizon, from the vales he looks up to the heights again. He is treading his old lessons still, and though he may be very weary and travel-worn, it is yet sincere experience.”

“Be ready to catch the ball when it is thrown by life.”