Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.
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The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life.
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I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.
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Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write the nicer you become.
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We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep.
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The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure
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. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.
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The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man. Virginia Woolf
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Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.
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Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.