If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged

Quote by Virginia Woolf

Topics: Adventure Quotes, Risk-taking Quotes

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following...

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following...

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions...

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions...

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other...

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other...

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story...

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story...

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to...

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to...

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to...

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to...

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form...

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form...

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune...

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune...

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his...

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his...

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether,...

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether,...

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the...

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the...

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

But now I was a rich man, three things have left me bare; dice, wine,...

But now I was a rich man, three things have left me bare; dice, wine,...