Orlando Quotes

“For the philosopher is right who says that nothing is thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“Has the finger of death to be laid on the tumult of life from time to time lest it rend us asunder? Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of the living?”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“For the philosopher is right who says that nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“The beautiful, glittering name fell out of the sky like a steel- blue feather. She watched it fall, turning and twisting like a slow- falling arrow that cleaves the deep air beautifully. He was coming, as he always came, in moments of dead calm; when the wave rippled and the spotted leaves fell slowly over her foot in the autumn woods; when the leopard was still; the moon was on the waters, and nothing moved between sky and sea. Then he came.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“People write always about the doings of the mind; the thoughts that come to it; its noble plans; how it has civilised the universe. They show it ignoring the body in the philosopher's turret; or kicking the body, like an old leather football, across leagues of snow and desert in the pursuit of conquest or discovery. Those great wars which it wages by itself, with the mind a slave to it, in the solitude of the bedroom against the assault of fever or the oncome of melancholia, are neglected.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando