Virginia Woolf Quotes
(1 - 10 of 13)If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private compared with relations more
If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too more
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
Language is wine upon the lips.
Language is wine upon the lips.
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality
In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
The first duty of a lecturer--to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up more
The first duty of a lecturer--to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
I feel certain that I'm going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And more
I feel certain that I'm going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices.
