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Top 15 Dorothy Strachey Quotes (2025 Update)

Dorothy Strachey Quote: “I understand,” I cried to myself, “I understand at last. Life, life, life, this is life, full to overflowing with every ecstasy and every agony. It is mine, mine to hug, to exhaust, to drain.”

1. “I understand,” I cried to myself, “I understand at last. Life, life, life, this is life, full to overflowing with every ecstasy and every agony. It is mine, mine to hug, to exhaust, to drain.”

— Dorothy Strachey

Dorothy Strachey Quote: “I was with her, beside her, for ever close to her, in that infinitely lovely, infinitely distant star, which shed its mingled rays of sorrow, affection and renouncement on the dark cold world below.”

2. “I was with her, beside her, for ever close to her, in that infinitely lovely, infinitely distant star, which shed its mingled rays of sorrow, affection and renouncement on the dark cold world below.”

— Dorothy Strachey

Dorothy Strachey Quote: “And then in a whisper, she added, so low that I could hardly hear it: “Je t’aime bien, mon enfant.” Her voice broke and sank and then, lower still, she added, “Plus que tu ne crois.” With that she was gone. The door shut and I was alone.”

3. “And then in a whisper, she added, so low that I could hardly hear it: “Je t’aime bien, mon enfant.” Her voice broke and sank and then, lower still, she added, “Plus que tu ne crois.” With that she was gone. The door shut and I was alone.”

— Dorothy Strachey

Dorothy Strachey Quote: “It was to me she was reading. I knew it. Yes, I understood, but no one else did. Once more that sense of profound intimacy, that communion beyond the power of words or caresses to bestow, gathered me to her heart. I was with her, beside her, for ever close to her, in that infinitely lovely, infinitely distant star, which shed its mingled rays of sorrow, affection and renouncement on the dark cold world below.”

4. “It was to me she was reading. I knew it. Yes, I understood, but no one else did. Once more that sense of profound intimacy, that communion beyond the power of words or caresses to bestow, gathered me to her heart. I was with her, beside her, for ever close to her, in that infinitely lovely, infinitely distant star, which shed its mingled rays of sorrow, affection and renouncement on the dark cold world below.”

— Dorothy Strachey

Dorothy Strachey Quote: “I have often wondered what share Racine had in lighting the flame that began to burn in my heart that night, or what share proximity. If she hadn’t read just that play or if she hadn’t called me up by chance to sit so near her, in such immediate contact, would the inflammable stuff which I carried so unsuspectingly within me have remained perhaps outside the radius of the kindling spark and never caught fire at all? But probably not; sooner or later, it was bound to happen.”

5. “I have often wondered what share Racine had in lighting the flame that began to burn in my heart that night, or what share proximity. If she hadn’t read just that play or if she hadn’t called me up by chance to sit so near her, in such immediate contact, would the inflammable stuff which I carried so unsuspectingly within me have remained perhaps outside the radius of the kindling spark and never caught fire at all? But probably not; sooner or later, it was bound to happen.”

— Dorothy Strachey

Dorothy Strachey Quote: “And still, do what I would, hope came to interfere with my thoughts, my resolves. How hard it is to kill hope!”

6. “And still, do what I would, hope came to interfere with my thoughts, my resolves. How hard it is to kill hope!”

— Dorothy Strachey

Dorothy Strachey Quote: “I would be better for my love, for my pain. Even the pain of absence – so I vowed with clenched teeth – should make me better not worse.”

7. “I would be better for my love, for my pain. Even the pain of absence – so I vowed with clenched teeth – should make me better not worse.”

— Dorothy Strachey

Dorothy Strachey Quote: “But there was no need of wine to intoxicate me. Everything in her proximity was intoxicating.”

8. “But there was no need of wine to intoxicate me. Everything in her proximity was intoxicating.”

— Dorothy Strachey

Dorothy Strachey Quote: “I saw last night that one can’t kill oneself without killing too many other things beside. I’ve done enough harm in my life already.”

9. “I saw last night that one can’t kill oneself without killing too many other things beside. I’ve done enough harm in my life already.”

— Dorothy Strachey

Dorothy Strachey Quote: “So, I consumed my heart with love and resentment, my eyes with hot, slow tears.”

10. “So, I consumed my heart with love and resentment, my eyes with hot, slow tears.”

— Dorothy Strachey

Dorothy Strachey Quote: “And now I understood that it was that difference that I wanted.”

11. “And now I understood that it was that difference that I wanted.”

— Dorothy Strachey

Dorothy Strachey Quote: “Why,” said Laura, looking at me with her clear, untroubled eyes, which had a kind of wonder and a kind of recoil in them: “there’s nothing else. I just love her.”

12. “Why,” said Laura, looking at me with her clear, untroubled eyes, which had a kind of wonder and a kind of recoil in them: “there’s nothing else. I just love her.”

— Dorothy Strachey

Dorothy Strachey Quote: “I was no longer alone. She was with me – beside me. She had said “us”. She had lifted me to her star.”

13. “I was no longer alone. She was with me – beside me. She had said “us”. She had lifted me to her star.”

— Dorothy Strachey

Dorothy Strachey Quote: “My indefinite desire was like some pervading, unlocalized ache of my whole being.”

14. “My indefinite desire was like some pervading, unlocalized ache of my whole being.”

— Dorothy Strachey

Dorothy Strachey Quote: “I had never thought about my body till that minute. A body! I had a body –.”

15. “I had never thought about my body till that minute. A body! I had a body –.”

— Dorothy Strachey

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