"For now she need not think of..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone.
More by Virginia Woolf
“But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.”
“It's my choice, to choose how to live my life.”
“There is no doubt in my mind, that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice.”
More on Solitude
“I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.”
“I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.”
“He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.”
More on Self
“Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest.”
“Man is his own worst enemy.”
“The one who does not stray away from her/his nature will live long.”