"The strange thing about life is that..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Nature turns all malfaisance to good.”

“Don't we all die someday and someday comes all too soon? What will you do with your own wild, glorious chance at this thing we call life.”

“Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.”

“His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.”

“Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.”

“Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.”