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Day Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.
- Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a…
- The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that…
- When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the…
- She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the…
- Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.
- Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf,…
- Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning?
- ...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
- Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day
- I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire…
- Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning could have been…
- Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a…
- They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were…
- Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just…
- Still, life had a way of adding day to day
- I have sometimes dreamt ... that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards…
- I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarreling…
- Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut…
- A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies,…
- 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…
- Night had come—night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than…
More Day Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong