Leonard Sidney Woolf was a noted British political theorist, author, publisher (The Hogarth Press), and civil servant, but perhaps best-known as husband to author Virginia Woolf.
“Forget not,” saith the Exalted One, “forget not, O Youth, longing to enkindle life with life, even as fire is enkindled with fire, that all the torments of this universe, where everyone is either slayer or slain, that all its sorrows and plaints, come from love.”
ann karagwahas quoted2 years ago
From longing is born the desire for joy,” the Exalted One hath said, “from happiness is born sorrow; out of joy and sorrow doth fear arise.”
ann karagwahas quoted2 years ago
There is a state— But what name shall it be given? ’Tis neither dream nor waking, wavering twixt both; And comprehending it within him, man To frenzy’s verge is driven. …