Author of quotes: Virginia Woolf. Page 2

She had very few male friends, very few close friends in general, she thought, but honestly, did she really need them?

Because he did not achieve anything, he often thought that he could not completely leave the world and the society of women, which he so needed, and write. He had let life overwhelm him too much.

Politics is a lottery, a game of chance, but for him it is not over yet, at fifty years old.

He looked at the stars and asked himself: What

Widowed, she sat for hours among her flowers, with expensive shadows rather than with us, immersed in the past.

Nature was her passion; mountains, sea. And here, in London, you look out the window and see houses, houses... It was terrifying that people live squeezed into boxes heaped on top of each other.

Her mother loved flowers; from childhood she was taught that to mutilate a flower means to abuse the most exquisite creation of nature.

They were too broad in mind and soul to laugh at people.

You should not leave mirrors hanging on the walls, just as you should not leave an open checkbook or a letter with a confession of heinous villainy unattended.

When you're young, you tend to get to know people. And now, when you are old, more precisely, when you are fifty-two years old, in a word, when you have reached maturity, you already know how to see and understand, but you do not lose the ability to feel. Feelings grow, unfortunately, perhaps; but it's hard not to be happy about it.

Desperate in human relations (it is so difficult with people), she often goes into the garden and among the flowers she finds peace, which people cannot give her.

You have to cope with everything, with the life that your parents gave you, endure it, live it to the end, go through it calmly.

The past also enriches experience, and when you have loved two or three in your life, you acquire an ability that youngsters do not have - to put an end to it in time, and to spit on various gossip, and not to deceive yourself too much.

The company of those dearest to us is not good for us when we are sick.