“I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour
to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my
world.”
Source: The Waves
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Virginia Woolf382
English writer 1882–1941Related quotes
Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine
Source: The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great
“I find out what the world needs. Then, I go ahead and invent it.”
Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American inventor and businessman
As quoted in American Greats (1999) Edited by Robert A. Wilson and Stanley Marcus, p. 70.
Date unknown
“The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.”
Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist
As quoted in Quotations for Our Time (1977), by Laurence J. Peter, p. 509
1970s
Robert Hughes (1938–2012) Australian critic, historian, writer
Things I Didn't Know (2006)
“Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Book III, Ode 29, lines 69–72.
Imitation of Horace (1685)
Context: Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine,
The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
“What luck I had to meet Morell. He has saved my life.”
Theodor Morell (1886–1948) Personal physician to Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler.
