Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Weitere Zitate von Virginia Woolf
Zum Autor"...It struck her, this was tragedy-- not palls, dust, and the shroud; but children coerced, their spirits subdued."
"Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body."
"He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open, like some old stone lying on the sand; he looked as if he had become physically what was always at the back of both of their minds—that loneliness which was for both of them the truth about things."
"With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life."
"It flattered her, where she was most susceptible of flattery, to think how, wound about in their hearts, however long they lived she would be woven..."
"The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness."