Antagonist Quote by Virginia Woolf Download Open image “And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.” — Virginia Woolf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Antagonist Life Literature
She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
But although she was with family and friends, she'd never felt more alone. She felt as if she'd lost a vital part of herself… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much. — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
and she realized that she (her soul) was not at all involved, only her body, her body alone. The body that had betrayed her… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life -… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
For me, in any story that I take, the antagonist is more interesting and multi-dimensional. — Vetrimaaran Copy Share Image
Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Evil is relative - and what I mean by that is that our villains are as complex, as deep and as compelling as any… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
It almost seems as though this roiling world is conspiring to test our patience at every turn. In fact, it is. With this in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror tackles our… — Kealan Patrick Burke Copy Share Image
I'm a filmmaker, and I was most influenced by Hitchcock's films. How he could plant such deep enriched characters and then make us care… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
Because the character is a fiction, he's a composite of other contributors to the science that brought this enzyme therapy through the process. We… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to you. — William Atherton Copy Share Image
“Alice started to understand why people found her repulsive. In stories, anyone who didn't look quite right, who wasn't a perfect human being, was… — Georgia Byng Copy Share Image
Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
