"To be nothing - is that not,..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Life would split apart without letters.”

“Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.”

“The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.”

“If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.”

“The world is a marvelous system of wiggles.”

“The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.”

“It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position.”

“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.”

“Nietzsche's my favorite. He's just insane.”