And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
-
-
I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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 -
In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
VIRGINIA WOOLF