I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThere was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
-
-
Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Intimacy is a difficult art.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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 -
In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
VIRGINIA WOOLF