A light here required a shadow there.
VIRGINIA WOOLFMoments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
More 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 -
There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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 -
Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Illness 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 WOOLF -
Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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 -
Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
VIRGINIA WOOLF