"For now she need not think of..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
For now she need not think of anybody. She coud 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. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.
More by Virginia Woolf
“It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.”
“fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.”
“It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.”
More on Solitude
“We are rarely proud when we are alone.”
“We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.”
“Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in her diary about the sticky issue: "I've shirked two parties, and another Frenchman, and buying a hat, and tea with Hilda Trevelyan, for I really can't combine all this with keeping all my imaginary people going.”