Melymbrosia Quotes

“...I live; I die; the sea comes over me; it's the blue that lasts.”
― Virginia Woolf, Melymbrosia

“Come, Spirits" she murmured; and was instantly fortified by a sense of the presence of the things that aren't there. There were the beautiful drowned statues, there were the glens and hills of an undiscovered country; there were divine musical notes, which, struck high up in the air, made one's heart beat with delight at the assurance that the world of things that aren't there was splendidly vigorous and far more real than the other. She felt that one never spoke of the things that mattered, but carried them about, until a note of music, or a sentence or a sight, joined hands with them.”
― Virginia Woolf, Melymbrosia

“She felt that if only one could begin things at the beginning, one might see more clearly upon what foundations they now rest.”
― Virginia Woolf, Melymbrosia

“Thinking was going on then as now; and thinking after all, is the flesh and blood of life; action seemed to her all out of proportion, as though people came and waved flags in your face.”
― Virginia Woolf, Melymbrosia

“We have had what no people in the world have had. No one has ever loved as we love each other.”
― Virginia Woolf, Melymbrosia

“If you take everything into consideration, Rachel' she observed leaning her chin for a moment upon the topmost bar of the gate, 'there's an enormous amount of good in the world.”
― Virginia Woolf, Melymbrosia

“In common with all who read little, she took every sentence very seriously handling it more as a drawer or table than as a row of words.”
― Virginia Woolf, Melymbrosia

“Go on talking' Rachel said within her, 'I like your voice.' It was a soft voice with a tendency to blur the edges of words and hesitate.”
― Virginia Woolf, Melymbrosia

“If Rachel had listened instead of looking out of the windows, she could have made some profoundly gloomy reflections upon the state of human relationships. 'We live to hurt each other!' she might have exclaimed. Happily, she dreamt.”
― Virginia Woolf, Melymbrosia

“Dick, you're better than I am"
said Clarissa.
"You see all around, where I only see there" she pressed a point on the back of his hand
"That's my business, as I tried to explain at dinner."
"What I like about you, Dick, is that you're always the
same, and I'm a creature of moods."
"You're a pretty creature anyhow" he said, gazing at her with deeper eyes.
"You think so, do you? Then kiss me.”
― Virginia Woolf, Melymbrosia

“He came to a tree which spread its shade and murmured over the dry river bed. He leant against it, so that his hat fell back, and his forehead was pressed to the bark. "I love her." He murmured aloud, in a voice that was half a sob, "I love her, I love her I love her" and then sobbed, so that he could stand no longer, but sat in the shade of the tree still, except for the movement which his sobs made, irregularly. When he unclasped his knees, and raised his face, an enormous happiness was to be seen there. He saw nothing, not the leaves, or the great blue dragonfly, or the lizard slipping between the stones in the sun; he saw nothing but the tender and magnificent world; he felt nothing but the sublime relief of allowing himself to love.”
― Virginia Woolf, Melymbrosia

“I tend, as far as I can see, to make fewer and fewer judgments. Perhaps that was how Socrates died, staring into the air, his mind a blank.”
― Virginia Woolf, Melymbrosia

“Set thus on a pedestal of earth human beings looked strange and noble. But they must eat!”
― Virginia Woolf, Melymbrosia

“Thinking was going on now; and thinking after all, is the flesh and blood of life; action seemed to her all out of proportion, as though people came and waved flags in your face.”
― Virginia Woolf, Melymbrosia

“Don't dream Rachel; talk" said Helen.
As if a spring had been touched, Rachel burst forth.”
― Virginia Woolf, Melymbrosia