Leonard Woolf

“A writer's life is in his work, and that is the place to find it.”

“The great menace to the world today is not the atom bomb... but the dogmatic mind.”

“It is a strange feeling, writing the last words of a book. You are glad to be finished, but sorry too.”

“Happiness is a garden, but it is a garden which is always in ruins.”

“We are all of us desperately lonely, and we are all of us desperately in need of love.”

“The paraphernalia of power is gigantic, disruptive, and spiritually wasteful.”

“The only tolerable substitute for salt is genius.”

“The world has always been a silly and a stupid place.”

“I see that I have lived in a world of illusion, and that the reality is quite different from what I imagined.”

“Barbarism and civilization are not conditions of society; they are states of the soul.”

“The older I get the more I am convinced that the most important thing in life is to be amused.”

“It is in the garden that one returns to the state of innocence.”