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Night and Day QUOTES

Night and Day QUOTES

1 " She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning without sharing her thoughts with any one, or having to decide whether the book was a good one or a bad one. "

― Virginia Woolf , Night and Day

2 " She would not have cared to confess how infinitely she preferred the exactitude, the star-like impersonality, of figures to the confusion, agitation, and vagueness of the finest prose. "

― Virginia Woolf , Night and Day

3 " But it would have been a surprise, not only to Katherine herself, if some magic watch could have taken count of the moments spent in an entirely different occupation from her ostensible one.Sitting with faded papers before her, she took part in a series of scenes such as the taming of wild ponies upon the American prairies, or the conduct of a vast ship in a hurricane round a black promontory of rock, or in others more peaceful, but marked by her complete emancipation from her present surroundings and, needless to say, her surprising ability in her new vocation. "

― Virginia Woolf , Night and Day

4 " She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine ... "

― Virginia Woolf , Night and Day

5 " But we-' she glanced at him as if to ascertain his position, 'we see each other only now and then-'
'Like lights in a storm-'
'In the midst of a hurricane,' she concluded, as the window shook beneath the pressure of the wind. "

― Virginia Woolf , Night and Day

6 " I don't care much whether I ever get to know anything - but I want to work out something in figures - something that hasn't got to do with human beings. I don't want people particularly. In some ways, Henry, I'm a humbug - I mean, I'm not what you all take me for. I'm not domestic, or very practical or sensible, really.And if I could calculate things, and use a telescope, and have to work out figures, and know to a fraction where I was wrong, I should be perfectly happy, and I believe I should give William all he wants. "

― Virginia Woolf , Night and Day

7 " I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything. "

― Virginia Woolf , Night and Day

8 " Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day. "

― Virginia Woolf , Night and Day

9 " What if I told you I’m incapable of tolerating my own heart? "

― Virginia Woolf , Night and Day

10 " If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us? "

― Virginia Woolf , Night and Day

11 " There are some books that LIVE," she mused. "They are young with us, and they grow old with us. "

― Virginia Woolf , Night and Day

12 " His eyes were bright, and, indeed, he scarcely knew whether they held dreams or realities...and in five minutes she had filled the shell of the old dream with the flesh of life... "

― Virginia Woolf , Night and Day

13 " Well, I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married. "

― Virginia Woolf , Night and Day

14 " What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty? "

― Virginia Woolf , Night and Day

15 " and then he could not see her come into a room without a sense of the flowing of robes, of the flowering of blossoms, of the purple waves of the sea, of all things that are lovely and mutable on the surface but still and passionate in their heart. "

― Virginia Woolf , Night and Day

16 " With a brain working and a body working one could keep step with the crowd and never be found out for the hollow machine, lacking the essential thing, that one was conscious of being. "

― Virginia Woolf , Night and Day

17 " She held in her hands for one brief moment the globe which we spend our lives in trying to shape, round, whole, and entire from the confusion of chaos. "

― Virginia Woolf , Night and Day

18 " Literature had taken possession even of her memories. She was matching him, presumably, with certain characters in the old novels... "

― Virginia Woolf , Night and Day

19 " the only sign that Katharine gave of abstraction was to forget to help the pudding. She looked so like her mother, as she sat there oblivious of the tapioca "

― Virginia Woolf , Night and Day

20 " I’ve done my best to see you as you are, without any of this damned romantic nonsense. That was why I asked you here, and it’s increased my folly. When you’re gone I shall look out of that window and think of you. I shall waste the whole evening thinking of you. I shall waste my whole life, I believe. "

― Virginia Woolf , Night and Day