Books are the mirrors of the soul.
VIRGINIA WOOLFBooks are the mirrors of the soul.
VIRGINIA WOOLFA feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
VIRGINIA WOOLFSomeone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIllness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWe are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
VIRGINIA WOOLFAll extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
VIRGINIA WOOLFBut nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI 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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIt is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
VIRGINIA WOOLF