A Quote by Virginia Woolf

Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.

Virginia Woolf

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Blade Happiness Knife Melancholy Nothing Separates Than Thicker

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Virginia Woolf
British - Author
January 25, 1882 - March 28, 1941

The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is the universal means of solving all knots; and along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox - the single most worthy path of the fearless mind.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Fitness if like the blade of a knife; you want to sharpen it without ruining the blade.

Sally Jenkins

Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.

Emile M. Cioran

Want know how I got these scars? My father was a drinker and a fiend. And one night he goes off crazier than usual. Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself. He doesn't like that. Not one bit. So, me watching, he takes the knife to her, laughing while he does it. He turns to me, and he says, 'why so serious?' He comes at me with the knife. 'Why so serious?!'. He sticks the blade in my mouth. 'Let's put a smile on that face!' And why so serious?

Heath Ledger

Who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and happiness, or of religious trances, far better by comparing them as conscientiously as we can with other varieties of melancholy, happiness, and trance, than by refusing to consider their place in any more general series, and treating them as if they were outside of nature's order altogether?

William James

Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study; a constant process of honing. Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.

Stephen King

Blood may be thicker than water, but friendship is thicker than both.

Ann Brashares

There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.

Ouida

If two people are in love they can sleep on the blade of a knife.

Edward Hoagland

We need the historian and philosopher to give us with trenchant pen, the story of our forefathers, and let our soul and body, with phosphorescent light, brighten the chasm that separates us. We should cling to them just as blood is thicker than water.

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

Physiologists and high-performance trainers understand now that the concept of 110 percent is no longer a smart way to train. Fitness is like the blade of a knife; you want to sharpen it without ruining the blade. Give 110 percent, and you won't build your body up, but actually break it down. And be no good to yourself or anyone else.

Sally Jenkins

A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.

Rene Daumal

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Rabindranath Tagore

Raphael's pleasure, his kiss, sent her over a second time....and it wasn't until they both stirred again that Raphael reached down and undid the strap of her knife sheath, putting it and the knife on the bedside table. "Beautiful as this sheath is," he said, touching the leather, "I much prefer the one which holds my blade.