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Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 25

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I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of emergency, at a crossing, at a kerb, the wish to preserve my body springs out and seizes me and

I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of emergency, at a crossing, at a kerb, the wish to preserve my body springs out and seizes me and stops me , here, before this omnibus. We insist, it seems, on living. Then again, indifference descends.

Spring, Eye, Past

Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.82, Virginia Woolf

When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.

Thinking, Arguing, Argument

Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.43

Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation between the too comes in. At least if you must put books on one side and life on the other, each is a poor and bloodless thing; but my theory is that they mix indistinguishable.

Book, Reading, Writing

Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?

Book, Animal, Men

Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.21, Oxford University Press, USA

If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.

Adventure, Doubt, Goats

Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that.

Writing, Pleasure, Certain

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

Altogether, the task of estimating the length of human life is beyond our capacity, for directly we say that it is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.

Fall, Long, Rose

"Orlando: A Biography".

The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.

Inspirational, Motivational, Men

Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.65

Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.

Clothes, Symbols

Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In the 18th century we knew how everything was done, but here I rise through the air, I listen to voices in America, I see men flying- but how is it done? I can't even begin to wonder. So my belief in magic returns.

Men, Air, Voice

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.544, Wordsworth Editions

The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth.

War, Fighting, Clouds

Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Collected Essays and Letters of Virginia Woolf - Including a Short Biography of the Author”, p.6, Read Books Ltd

History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.

War, Men, History

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.630, Wordsworth Editions

The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

Notebook, Teacher, Women

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.565, Wordsworth Editions

Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert. They fly screaming into the wilderness. The rack and the thumbscrew are applied. Human nature is remorseless.

Fall, Desert, Human Nature

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.190, Wordsworth Editions

The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.

Letters, Our Time

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3541, Delphi Classics

Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.

Stories, Able, Life Is

Virginia Woolf (1976). “The Waves”, Chatto & Windus

There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death.

It is no use trying to sum people up.

People, Trying, Use

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.734, Delphi Classics

madam," the man cried, leaping to the ground, "you're hurt!" "I'm dead, sir!" she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged.

Hurt, Men, Minutes

Virginia Woolf (2014). “Orlando”, p.162, OUP Oxford

To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.

Unthinkable, Oneself

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1423, Delphi Classics

As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.

Writing, Lava, Madness

Virginia Woolf (1978). “A Reflection of the Other Person”, Chatto & Windus

One must love everything.

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.100, Wordsworth Editions

... why do people who live in the country always give themselves such airs?

Country, Air, People

Virginia Woolf (1975). “The letters of Virginia Woolf”

You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that makes the best lectures.

Water, Ingredients, Lectures

Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.361, Lulu Press, Inc

The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

Witty, Silence, Ornaments

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