"Yet it is in our idleness, in..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
More by Virginia Woolf
“In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows.”
“To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!”
“... why do people who live in the country always give themselves such airs?”
More on Truth
“Leave that which is not,but appears to be.Seek that which is,but is not apparent.”
“I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.”
“No thought can encapsulate the vastness of the totality. Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments. Every thought implies a perspective, and every perspective, by its very nature, implies limitation, which ultimately means that it is not true, at least not absolutely. Only the whole is true, but the whole cannot be spoken or thought.”
More on Dreams
“We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.”
“Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer's no. That's not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?”
“The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.”