The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
VIRGINIA WOOLFTo enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
VIRGINIA WOOLFAnd yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
VIRGINIA WOOLFFor books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
VIRGINIA WOOLFBut beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
VIRGINIA WOOLFA light here required a shadow there.
VIRGINIA WOOLFAll extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThere was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
VIRGINIA WOOLFIt might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWomen and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
VIRGINIA WOOLFUntil we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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 WOOLFYou cannot find peace by avoiding life.
VIRGINIA WOOLFTo make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWhen I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLF