Quote by Virginia Woolf

A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.

— Virginia Woolf

“that life was full of small comforts which were all the time making for happiness, and that we did not sufficiently appreciate them.”

— Katrina Avilla Munichiello

“They were caring and tender and, although neither quite knew what caring and tenderness were, they succeeded because they very much wanted to. And…

— Andrzej Sapkowski

“A lifetime had to be crafted, just like anything else, she thought, it had to be moulded and beaten and burnished in order to…

— Rohinton Mistry

“the time of the actual enjoyment is short and swift, and made much shorter through their own fault. For they dash from one pleasure…

— Seneca

“I tended to spend too much time with my favorite things, loved them too hard until I wore them down. After a while, they…

— Brittany Cavallaro

“We were bullied, broken, built up, bronzed and polished. We grew dull, dusty, doubtful, dark, and forgetful. Yet we still know that we can…

— Antonia Perdu

“Life wasn’t too short: it was too long to waste unduly on non-love, non-laughter and non-decisions. And it began when you first took a…

— Nina George

“she thought of all the years that had led up to this—all those seconds and minutes and hours, spent elsewhere, with others, doing other…

— Laura Barnett

“Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness.”

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“It was the silly little things that seemed so unimportant at the time that could end up meaning the most after, the things that…

— Kirsty Moseley

“Why did things always have to feel so fleeting?”

— Kim Askew