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Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 2

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For nothing was simply one thing.

For nothing was simply one thing.

Lighthouse, One Thing

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

I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

People, Silence, Sublime

Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

Incessant, Solitary, Confinement

Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.341, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.

Shadow, Skins, Feels

Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.

Reality, Tea, Cups Of Tea

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

Reading, Giving, Advice

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2597, Delphi Classics

I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.

Sky, Mood

I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.

Independent, Eye, Self

Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.218, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

Beautiful, Healing, Delight

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.48, Delphi Classics

Intimacy is a difficult art.

Art, Intimacy, Difficult

Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.331, Lulu Press, Inc

Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.

Horse, Blame, Praise

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.819, Delphi Classics

There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

Imagination, Facts, Strange

Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.64, Lulu Press, Inc

Love had a thousand shapes.

Love, Shapes, Thousand

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.380, Wordsworth Editions

My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

Brain, Madness, Scrap

I prefer men to cauliflowers

Men, Cauliflower

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

Fear no more, says the heart.

Heart, Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.39, Broadview Press

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Freedom, Women, Reading

Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.610, Wordsworth Editions

Do not move, do not go. Sink within this moment. Hold it for ever.

Moving, Moments

I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married

Way, Want, Married

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.485, Delphi Classics

She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!

Beach, Eye, Blue

Virginia Woolf (2014). “To the Lighthouse”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.

People, Different, Made

Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.97, Virginia Woolf

Long ago I realized that no other person would be to me what you are.

Long Ago, Would Be, I Realized

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

Creativity, Creative, Innovation

Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.31

There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.

Life, Dream, Hair

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1819, Delphi Classics

The depths of the sea are only water after all.

Sea, Water, Depth

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