What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.Virginia Woolf
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.Mrs. Ramsay
One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair, that's a table, and yet at the same time, It's a miracle, it's an ecstasy.Lily Briscoe
Every one could not be as kind as herself; in the effort to be as kind, she forgot, and gave people what they did not want.Virginia Woolf
We perished each alone.Virginia Woolf
Children never forget. For this reason, it was so important to be careful what one said, and what one did.Mrs. Ramsay
She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.Virginia Woolf
She felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the walls of partition had become so thin that practically (the feeling was one of relief and happiness) it was all one stream, and chairs, tables, maps were hers; were theirs.Virginia Woolf
So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ballLily Briscoe
Where to begin?—that was the question at what point to make the first mark?Lily Briscoe