Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
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Women alone stir my imagination.
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It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality.
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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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Yes, yes, I'm coming. Right up the top of the house. One moment I'll linger. How the mud goes round in the mind-what a swirl these monsters leave, the waters rocking, the weeds waving and green here, black there, striking to the sand, till by degrees the atoms reassemble, the deposit sifts itself, and a gain through the eyes one sees clear and still, and there comes to the lips some prayer for the departed, some obsequy for the souls of those one nods to, the one never meets again.
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Do not move, do not go. Sink within this moment. Hold it for ever.
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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
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All artists need a room of their own
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The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a mistake to think that literature can be produced from the raw. One must get out of life...one must become externalised; very, very concentrated, all at one point, not having to draw upon the scattered parts of one's character, living in the brain.
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Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.
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She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of life — one scratched on the wall.
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There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.
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We insist, it seems, on living.
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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
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No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.
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Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.
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Oh, I am in love with life!
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First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.
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I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.
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I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
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Love had a thousand shapes.