If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
-
-
I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Intimacy is a difficult art.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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 -
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Thinking is my fighting.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
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 -
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
VIRGINIA WOOLF