To the lighthouse quotes

Time, which sees all things, has found you on its long list of victims.

In the midst of life we are in death.

The past is a foreign country.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

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

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

I think it is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

I am not young enough to know everything.

What is right is not always popular, and what is popular is not always right.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

To the lighthouse quotes part 2

I can’t explain myself, I’m afraid, because I’m not myself.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

One should always be a little improbable.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.

We are all fools in love.

I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The heart was made to be broken.

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

I can believe anything, provided it is incredible.