"Of the rest some we know to..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six.
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.”
“And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence.”
“I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.”
More on Life
“A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?”
“There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It's why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.”
“And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.”
More on Death
“Man is like the foam of the sea, that floats upon the surface of the water. When the wind blows, it vanishes, as if it had never been. Thus are our lives blown away by Death.”
“Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.”
“Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.”