# Quote — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

> She felt this thing that she called life terrible, hostile, and quick to pounce on you if you gave it a chance. There were the eternal problems: suffering; death; the poor. There was always a woman dying of cancer even here. And yet she had said to all these children, You shall go through with it.

- Author: [Virginia Woolf](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf.md)
- Book: [To the Lighthouse](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf/to-the-lighthouse.md)
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