To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!

The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

Well, we must wait for the future to show.

I have had my vision.

About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.

So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball

So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.

How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it is liking one felt, or disliking?

And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of treesand changing leaves.

in this case, a mother, noted for her beauty, might be reduced to a purple shadow... (Tansley to Lily on her painting of the house & grounds)

In the flailing light they all looked sharp-edged and ethereal and divided by great distances

Our common humanity, viewed realistically, can be as much a source of despair as hope.

There is no limit to what your mind can achieve

It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.

Who never caused others to die Seldom rates a statue.

Try thyself first and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.

If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.

Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.