Virginia Woolf Quotes

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Dare Fear Love Myself Soul Waterfall
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

Effort Extraordinary Struck Tired Writing Wrong
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

Century Power Reflection Serve Women
I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Acceptance Break Up Healing People Soul Unhappy
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Beyond Desire Dreamss Hide Life
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Cage Confidence Eyes Freedom Prison Self Love
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Truth Women Women Empowerment
Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Break Up Case Foolish Forget Pain Thinking
I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Character Deep Healing Human Nature Hurt Life
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Book Friendship Heart Leaf Past Shut
Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Cease Occupation Protect Woman Women Empowerment
I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Age Aspect Believe Forever Sun
Marvelous are the innocent.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Innocent Intelligence Marvelous One Liner
Fear no more, says the heart.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Fear Healing Heart Inspirational One Liner Peace
Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Attitude Deserve One Liner Owe Peace Spring
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Control Enjoyment Freedom Inspirational One Liner Ourselves
She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Break Up DAngry Feeling Life Live Pain
But 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 WOOLF

Except Indifference Love People Relationship Strange
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Break Death Life Optimism Writing
And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Excitement Imagination Life One Liner
I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Flatter Giving Hate Hurt Man Need
Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Arch Burn Death Dust Inspirational Leaving
Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Arrange Healing Inspirational Life One Liner Pieces
Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Consolation Divine Friendship Genius Love Moments
Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Bud Darkness Flower Life Moments Tree
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Book Charm Lack Library Togetherness
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

Bury Flesh Moments Pain Tears Togetherness

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