Top 32 Vita Plus Quotes
#1. Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.
Enza Vita
#4. Sine doctrina vita est quasi mortis imago [Without learning, life is but the image of death]
Dionysius Cato
#5. Nella vita: chi non risica, non rosica," he said finally, his voice quiet. "In life: nothing ventured, nothing gained. My mom used to tell us that. It's been a long time, but I can still hear her saying it.
J.M. Darhower
#6. I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves ...
Vita Sackville-West
#7. I like muddling things up; and if a herb looks nice in a border, then why not grow it there? Why not grow anything anywhere so long as it looks right where it is? That is, surely, the art of gardening.
Vita Sackville-West
#8. The problem is you bring up the name Elizabeth Taylor, people think of jewelry; they think of husbands; the 'la dolce vita' lifestyle. I'm happy to have gotten to know her when I got to know her.
Firooz Zahedi
#9. I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.
Vita Sackville-West
#12. Small pleasures must correct great tragedies, therefore of gardens in the midst of war I bold tell.
Vita Sackville-West
#13. Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
Vita Sackville-West
#14. I do not like January very much. It is too stationary. Not enough happens. I like the evidences of life, and in January there are too few of them.
Vita Sackville-West
#15. All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.
Vita Sackville-West
#16. I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home.
[Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#17. Slavery became the social condition of the laboring classes because it was felt that it was the natural condition of life itself. Omnis vita servitium est.
Hannah Arendt
#19. I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.
Vita Sackville-West
#21. Talk of solitude (...). It is the last resort of the civilised: our souls are so creased and soured in meaning we can only unfold them when we are alone. (5/4/1927 - From a Letter to Vita Sackville-West)
Virginia Woolf
#22. The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as a sign of excellence. The long-liver has triumphed over at least one of man's initial handicaps: the brevity of life.
Vita Sackville-West
#23. Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.
Vita Sackville-West
#24. Don't mind being as miserable as you like with me - I have a great turn that way myself - [VW]
Vita Sackville-West
#25. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan't make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.
Vita Sackville-West
#26. She wondered which wounds went deeper: the jagged wounds of reality, or the profound invisible bruises of the imagination?
Vita Sackville-West
#27. Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
Vita Sackville-West
#28. From my father, Alfred: Senza memoria vita non esiste.
(which in Italian means, without memory life does not exist)
Raymond F. Vennare
#30. Ave Dolce Vita, Rex Regum! Hail Sweet Life, King of Kings! We love you and we believe in you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#31. See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go ...
Vita Sackville-West
#32. Vita hominis plus libro valet! A life is worth more than a book.
Rachel Caine
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