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Quotation from Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
“Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone.”
Mrs. Dalloway, Evening, the party (the little room) (Project Gutenberg #71865 (Harcourt, Brace text))
Alone after hearing of the suicide of a young man she never met, Clarissa tries to understand what he did and what her own life has preserved or let drop.
Citation: "Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone." — Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, Evening, the party (the little room) (Project Gutenberg #71865 (Harcourt, Brace text)). (id mrs-dalloway-q7)
Portrait: Virginia Woolf 1927, Unknown author, Public domain.
