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Best Us Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- some we know to be dead even though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through all the forms of…
- Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.
- Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.
- Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected…
- He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
- Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world…
- 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…
- Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that…
- It is equally vain,” she thought, “for you to think you can protect me, or for me to think I can worship you. The light…
- I have sometimes dreamt ... that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards…
- It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had…
- By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us…
- The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your voice and the…
- Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these – ‘Chloe liked Olivia…’ Do not start. Do not blush. Let…
- If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?
- 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…
- Rhoda comes now, having slipped in while we were not looking. She must have made a tortuous course, taking cover now behind a waiter, now…
- Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast…
- Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every…
- Let us begin by clearing up the old confusion between theman who loves learning and the man who loves reading, and point out that there…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong