"All looked distant and peaceful and strange...." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away, unreal. Already the little distance they had sailed had put them far from it and given it the changed look, the composed look, of something receding in which one has no longer any part.
More by Virginia Woolf
“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.”
“The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.”
“Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.”
More on Perspective
“I never joined the army because at ease was never that easy to me. Seemed rather uptight still. I don't relax by parting my legs slightly and putting my hands behind my back. That does not equal ease. At ease was not being in the military. I am at ease, bro, because I am not in the military.”
“Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.”
“Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.”