More quotes by Virginia Woolf

"The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."
"No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes"
"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
"When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?"
"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue."