"Our apparitions, the things you know us..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by.
More by Virginia Woolf
“It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.”
“I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.”
“To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries.”
More on Identity
“You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody.”
“Nature, body, mind go to death, not we. We neither go nor come. The man Vivekananda is in nature, is born and dies. But the Self we see as Vivekananda is never born and never dies. It is the eternal and unchangeable Reality.”
“It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.”
More on Appearance
“Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.”
“Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue.”
“I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.”