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Beneath Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the…
- Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.
- ...the problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture was poised upon…
- But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.
- He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of the oak tree…
- Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but…
- For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat stone. "What is…
- This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw…
- For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of space ;…
- The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features from faces. People…
- Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?
- And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath…
More Beneath Quotes
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi
- On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam… — Diane Ackerman
- In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that… — Enid Bagnold
- Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race… — James A. Baldwin
- To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or… — Ansel Adams
- I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them. — Alan Ball
- There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. — Robert Ballard
- I hate every human being on earth. I feel that everyone is beneath me, and I feel they should all worship me.… — Roseanne Barr