Quotes about Perception
But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.
— Virginia Woolf
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
— Virginia Woolf
But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
— Virginia Woolf
For nothing was simply one thing.
— Virginia Woolf
It appeared that nobody ever said a thing they meant, or ever talked of a feeling they felt, but that was what music was for.
— Virginia Woolf
One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.
— Virginia Woolf
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality
— Virginia Woolf
Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
— Virginia Woolf
The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.
— Virginia Woolf
Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.
— Virginia Woolf
Roses, she thought sardonically, All trash, m'dear.
— Virginia Woolf
Sometimes, one trembling star comes in the clear sky and makes me think the world beautiful and we maggots deforming even the trees with our lusts.
— Virginia Woolf