Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 5

Quotes about:

• What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Brain, Doe

  "Selected Works of Virginia Woolf".

  23 Copy quote

• Thinking is my fighting.

  Virginia Woolf

  Healing, Fighting, Thinking

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.28, Oxford University Press, USA

  29 Copy quote

• I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.

  Virginia Woolf

  Mind, Chaos, Absurd

  52 Copy quote

• For nothing was simply one thing.

  Virginia Woolf

  Lighthouse, One Thing

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.376, Wordsworth Editions

  63 Copy quote

• He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Our Dreams, Our Lives

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.497, Wordsworth Editions

  22 Copy quote

• Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.

  Virginia Woolf

  Affair, Illusion

  7 Copy quote

• But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beautiful, Dark, Self

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories”, p.28, Courier Corporation

  53 Copy quote

• The truer the facts the better the fiction.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fiction, Facts

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.12, Oxford University Press, USA

  11 Copy quote

• A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

  Virginia Woolf

  Insanity, Age, Veils

  Virginia Woolf (1984). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1936-1941”, Harcourt

  41 Copy quote

• I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.

  Virginia Woolf

  Funny, Friendship, Death

  27 Copy quote

• As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

  Virginia Woolf

  Men, Thinking, Long

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.530, Wordsworth Editions

  16 Copy quote

• The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Truth Is, Completeness

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.84, Oxford University Press, USA

  60 Copy quote

• Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand here am I sitting after half the morning, crammed with ideas, and visions, and so on, and can't dislodge them, for lack of the right rhythm. Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than any words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.

  Virginia Woolf

  Morning, Simple, Sight

  Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1975). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1923-1928”, Harcourt on Demand

  10 Copy quote

• I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beauty, Beautiful, Time

  Virginia Woolf (1980). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930”, Chatto & Windus

  20 Copy quote

• The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

  Virginia Woolf

  Happiness, Beauty, Laughter

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.573, Wordsworth Editions

  60 Copy quote

• I prefer men to cauliflowers

  Virginia Woolf

  Men, Cauliflower

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.3, Broadview Press

  18 Copy quote

• It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Dream, Truth

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.583, Wordsworth Editions

  27 Copy quote

• I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.

  Virginia Woolf

  People, Soul, Unhappy

  Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1977). “A change of perspective”, Vintage

  14 Copy quote

• I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.

  Virginia Woolf

  Giving, Solitude, Want

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.38, Virginia Woolf

  7 Copy quote

• The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.

  Virginia Woolf

  Ordinary, Extraordinary, Depends

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.133, Oxford University Press

  14 Copy quote

• Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sleep, Draught, Fatigue

  Virginia Woolf, Kate Flint (1999). “Jacob's Room”, p.90, Oxford University Press, USA

  10 Copy quote

• All extremes of feeling are allied to madness.

  Virginia Woolf

  Feelings, Madness, Extremes

  "Orlando: A Biography".

  24 Copy quote

• ...so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow twenty years ago; where one moved about without haste or anxiety, for there was no future to worry about. She knew what had happened to them, what to her. It was like reading a good book again, for she knew the end of that story, since it had happened twenty years ago, and life, which shot down even from this dining-room table in cascades, heaven knows where, was sealed up there, and lay, like a lake, placidly between its banks.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Reading, Book

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.315, Wordsworth Editions

  7 Copy quote

• I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

  "The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1920-1924".

  9 Copy quote

• I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Plot, Rhythm

  Virginia Woolf (2000). “The Waves”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

  14 Copy quote

Page 5 of 33

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin