Virginia Woolf's Quotes

Virginia Woolf's Quotes 95

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short...

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power...

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most...

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason...

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman...

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality...

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many...

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes...

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes...

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If...

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our...

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of...

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it...

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your...

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