For while directly we say that [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.


Jacob's Room (1922)

Virginia Woolf Quotes

For while directly we say that [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.

For while directly we say that [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.

For while directly we say that [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.

For while directly we say that [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.