"Are we so made that we have..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?
More by Virginia Woolf
“I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.”
“To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.”
“I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of men in clubs and public-houses; of miners half naked in drawers the forthright, perfectly unassuming, and without end in view except dinner, love, money and getting along tolerably; that which is without great hopes, ideals, or anything of that kind; what is unassuming except to make a tolerably, good job of it. I like all that.”
More on Life
“The purpose of life is to be happy. I don't think it's any more complicated than that. It's also important not to interfere with anybody else's right to do the same. We just need to practice that. It's the Golden Rule.”
“All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.”
“My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.”
More on Death
“None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.”
“Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?”
“We love to see any redness in the vegetation of the temperate zone. It is the color of colors. This plant speaks to our blood....What a perfect maturity it arrives at! It is the emblem of a successful life concluded by a death not premature, which is an ornament to Nature. What if we were to mature as perfectly, root and branch, glowing in the midst of our decay, like the poke!”