Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (1882-01-25 – 1941-03-28), born Adeline Virginia Stephen, was a British writer who is considered to be one of the foremost modernist/feminist literary figures of the twentieth century.
Found 38 thoughts of Virginia Woolf
It will be all over this day week - comfort - discomfort; and the zest and rush that no engagements, hours, habits give. Then we shall take them up again with more than the zest of traveling.
Virginia Woolf
The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.
Virginia Woolf
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Virginia Woolf
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf
As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.
Virginia Woolf
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia Woolf
You send a boy to school in order to make friends of the right sort.
Virginia Woolf
It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
Virginia Woolf
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Virginia Woolf
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
Virginia Woolf
Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
Virginia Woolf
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
Virginia Woolf
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
Virginia Woolf
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
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
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia Woolf
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
Virginia Woolf
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man, at twice its natural size.
Virginia Woolf
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Virginia Woolf
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf
