The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.
Vita Sackville-WestIt is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.
Vita Sackville-WestIt 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-WestThe true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone; when he is in company he will feel that he perjures himself, prostitutes himself to the exactions of others; he will feel that time spent in company is time lost; he will be conscious only of his impatience to get back to his true life.
Vita Sackville-West