Top 80 Vita Sackville-West Quotes (2023 Update)
Page 2 of 2

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.”

51. “The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.”

— Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people’s experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one’s own.”

52. “It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people’s experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one’s own.”

— Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.”

53. “Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.”

— Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “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.”

54. “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

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “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.”

55. “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

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.”

56. “Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.”

— Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.”

57. “One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.”

— Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn’t care deeply.”

58. “Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn’t care deeply.”

— Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “Like a little warm coal in my heart burns your saying that you miss me. I miss you oh so much. How much, you’ll never believe or know. At every moment of the day. It is painful but also rather pleasant, if you know what I mean. I mean, that it is good to have so keen and persistent a feeling about somebody. It is a sign of vitality.”

59. “Like a little warm coal in my heart burns your saying that you miss me. I miss you oh so much. How much, you’ll never believe or know. At every moment of the day. It is painful but also rather pleasant, if you know what I mean. I mean, that it is good to have so keen and persistent a feeling about somebody. It is a sign of vitality.”

— Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “All emotion now was a twilight thing.”

60. “All emotion now was a twilight thing.”

— Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “Virginia wasn’t all cool intellect by any means. She had the warmest and deepest and most human of affections for those she loved. They were few, perhaps, and she applied alarmingly high standards, but her love and humanity were real, once they were given.”

61. “Virginia wasn’t all cool intellect by any means. She had the warmest and deepest and most human of affections for those she loved. They were few, perhaps, and she applied alarmingly high standards, but her love and humanity were real, once they were given.”

— Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “Cristina, being something of a gardener, knew well enough that certain plants may appear to remain stationary for years while they are really making roots underground, only to break into surprising vigour overhead at a given moment.”

62. “Cristina, being something of a gardener, knew well enough that certain plants may appear to remain stationary for years while they are really making roots underground, only to break into surprising vigour overhead at a given moment.”

— Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “Lovers, or potential lovers, ought never to meet before the afternoon.”

63. “Lovers, or potential lovers, ought never to meet before the afternoon.”

— Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “She loves in a way that will make her suffer horribly.”

64. “She loves in a way that will make her suffer horribly.”

— Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “I think we have got something indestructible between us, haven’t we?”

65. “I think we have got something indestructible between us, haven’t we?”

— Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment.”

66. “It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment.”

— Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “Since one cannot have truth,’ cried Sebastian, struggling into his evening shirt, ’let us at least have good manners.”

67. “Since one cannot have truth,’ cried Sebastian, struggling into his evening shirt, ’let us at least have good manners.”

— Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “Youth had no beauty like the beauty of an old face; the face of youth was an unwritten page.”

68. “Youth had no beauty like the beauty of an old face; the face of youth was an unwritten page.”

— Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “We could never have hit it off for long. There was never anything but love to keep us together.”

69. “We could never have hit it off for long. There was never anything but love to keep us together.”

— Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “I wouldn’t commit murder for the sake of an allegory.”

70. “I wouldn’t commit murder for the sake of an allegory.”

— Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “There had been no moments when she could differentiate and say: Then, at such a moment, I love him; and again, Then, at such another, I loved him not. The stress had been constant. her love for him had been a straight black line drawn right through her life. It had hurt her, it had damaged her, it had diminished her, but she had been unable to curve away from it.”

71. “There had been no moments when she could differentiate and say: Then, at such a moment, I love him; and again, Then, at such another, I loved him not. The stress had been constant. her love for him had been a straight black line drawn right through her life. It had hurt her, it had damaged her, it had diminished her, but she had been unable to curve away from it.”

— Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “All love is a weakness, if it comes to that, in so far as it destroys some part of our independence.”

72. “All love is a weakness, if it comes to that, in so far as it destroys some part of our independence.”

— Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you...”

73. “I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you...”

— Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “Someday I’ll write and tell you all the things you mean to me in my mind. Shall I?”

74. “Someday I’ll write and tell you all the things you mean to me in my mind. Shall I?”

— Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “My bed’s at least nine foot wide, and I feel like the Princes and the Pea, – only there is no Pea. It is a four-poster, all of which I like. Come and see for yourself.”

75. “My bed’s at least nine foot wide, and I feel like the Princes and the Pea, – only there is no Pea. It is a four-poster, all of which I like. Come and see for yourself.”

— Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “The only time I thought of Virginia as being eclipsed was when the sun himself shared her darkening and I saw her standing wraithlike on a Yorkshire moor while the shadow swept onwards towards totality.”

76. “The only time I thought of Virginia as being eclipsed was when the sun himself shared her darkening and I saw her standing wraithlike on a Yorkshire moor while the shadow swept onwards towards totality.”

— Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “I wish, in a way, that we could put the clock back a year. I should like to startle you again, – even though I didn’t know then that you were startled.”

77. “I wish, in a way, that we could put the clock back a year. I should like to startle you again, – even though I didn’t know then that you were startled.”

— Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “He was a foolish cynic who said that great love occurred only two or three times in a century. There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree. Surviving all vicissitudes, and rich with its manifold branches, every leaf holding its own significance.”

78. “He was a foolish cynic who said that great love occurred only two or three times in a century. There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree. Surviving all vicissitudes, and rich with its manifold branches, every leaf holding its own significance.”

— Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “I am absolutely devoted to her, but not in love. So there.”

79. “I am absolutely devoted to her, but not in love. So there.”

— Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “Only it won’t be an earthquake – not in England, England isn’t seismic – it will be a gradual crumbling.”

80. “Only it won’t be an earthquake – not in England, England isn’t seismic – it will be a gradual crumbling.”

— Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “Please, in all this muddle of life, continue to be a bright and constant star. Just a few things remain as beacons: poetry, and you, and solitude.”

81. “Please, in all this muddle of life, continue to be a bright and constant star. Just a few things remain as beacons: poetry, and you, and solitude.”

— Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West Quote: “Her body had, in fact, become her companion, a constant resource and preoccupation; all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened. Yet it was, rather than otherwise, an agreeable and interesting tyranny.”

82. “Her body had, in fact, become her companion, a constant resource and preoccupation; all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened. Yet it was, rather than otherwise, an agreeable and interesting tyranny.”

— Vita Sackville-West

Self Control Quotes

Self Control Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

PREV 1 2 NEXT

Self Control Quotes

Self Control Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Steve Jobs Quotes

Steve Jobs Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS APPLE

Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

COURAGE MOTIVATIONAL STRENGTH

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

LIFE SPIRITUALITY

Save image...
Permalink
Open in new tab
Copy quote text

Beautiful Wallpapers and Images

We hope you enjoyed our collection of 80 free pictures with Vita Sackville-West Quotes.

All of the images on this page were created with QuoteFancy Studio.

Use QuoteFancy Studio to create high-quality images for your desktop backgrounds, blog posts, presentations, social media, videos, posters and more.

Thank you!

Please check your email.