Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
VIRGINIA WOOLFTo look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
-
-
Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
I 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 WOOLF -
For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Love had a thousand shapes.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
VIRGINIA WOOLF