Virginia Woolf Quotes
Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from the pinnacle of a tower into the air? Could it be, even for elderly people, that this was life?--startling, unexpected, unknown?
Topics
Discovery
Exploration
Uncertainty
Adventure
Air
Heart
Risk Taking
Spontaneity
Surprise, Surprises
Unpredictability
Elderly, Aging. Old Age, Social Security & Pensions
Embracing the Unexpected
Life's Unpredictability
Living on the Edge
Uncertainty Principle
Unknowable Future
Unpreparedness
Life's Miracle
Unexpected Life
Citations
Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. Hogarth Press, 1927, p. 268.
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