Quotes About Bloomsbury Group

#1. Nothing matters, and everything matters.

Leonard Woolf

#2. The mere fact that a very large number of people believe such a thing and that the world would be a better place if it were true, is no reason for believing that it is true.

Leonard Woolf

#3. I see clearly that I have achieved practically nothing.

Leonard Woolf

#4. It is never right for any individual or government to do any vast evil as a means to some hypothetical good.

Leonard Woolf

#5. There is nothing to be said except about the sheer waste and futility of it all. It is the war all over again, when one is rung up to be told that Rupert was dead, or that one's brother was killed, and one knew that it was only to produce the kind of world we are living in now. Horrible.

Leonard Woolf

#6. Nothing matters.

Leonard Woolf

#7. An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#8. Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation ... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable.

Leonard Woolf

#9. The fact is, I find it extremely difficult to force myself to read old letters ... Whenever one really knows the facts, one finds that what is accepted by contemporaries or posterity as the truth about them is so distorted or out of focus that it is not worth worrying about.

Leonard Woolf

#10. For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast ... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).

Alexander Pope

#11. Physical activity is the single most efficient strategy for completing the stress response cycle and recalibrating your central nervous system into a calm state. When people say, 'Exercise is good for stress,' that is for realsie real.

Emily Nagoski

#12. Nothing scared me more than the dark. I liked to see what was coming, and darkness was a place where things could hide.

Kami Garcia

#13. There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back.

Steve Forbert

#14. New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.

Ira Sachs