"We seem to be riding on the..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
We seem to be riding on the top of the highest mast of the tallest ship; and yet at the same time we know that nothing of this sort matters; love is not proved thus, nor great achievements completed thus; so that we sport with the moment and preen our feathers in it lightly.
More by Virginia Woolf
“every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works, yet we require critics to explain the one and biographers to expound the other. That time hangs heavy on people's hands is the only explanation of the monstrous growth.”
“As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.”
“Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.”
More on Perspective
“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”
“A reasonable man adjusts himself to the world. An unreasonable man expects the world to adjust itself to him. Therefore all progress is made by unreasonable people.”