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Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 4

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A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop.

A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop.

Healing, Hands, Perfect

We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.

Virginia Woolf (2014). “The Waves”, p.15, Oxford University Press, USA

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.

Believe, Passion, Cutting

Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

to teach without zest is a crime.

Zest, Crime, Teach

Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

Sleep, Draught, Fatigue

Virginia Woolf, Kate Flint (1999). “Jacob's Room”, p.90, Oxford University Press, USA

Thinking is my fighting.

Healing, Fighting, Thinking

Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.28, Oxford University Press, USA

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Life, Dream, Truth

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.583, Wordsworth Editions

All extremes of feeling are allied to madness.

Feelings, Madness, Extremes

"Orlando: A Biography".

Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles.

Daughter, Mother, Baby

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

Numbness, People, Soul

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2280, Delphi Classics

Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.

Affair, Illusion

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.

Life, Halos, Lamps

1919 'Modern Fiction'.

I will dream today; for I must unscrew my head somehow.

Dream, Today

The world is crammed with delightful things

World, Delightful, Delightful Things

Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Voyage Out”, p.66, Virginia Woolf

We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments.

Fragments, Reconcile, Seasons

Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.231, Broadview Press

We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable.

Hands, Feet, Bird

Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.104, Oxford University Press

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Reality, Phantoms, Harder

Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.142, Oxford University Press

I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.

Writing, Plot, Rhythm

Virginia Woolf (2000). “The Waves”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

All extremes are dangerous.

Moderation, Dangerous, Extremes

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2281, Delphi Classics

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

Daughter, Mother, Brother

Virginia Woolf (2016). “Three Guineas”, p.51, Virginia Woolf

Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

Passion, Yield, Rooms

Virginia Woolf (1990). “A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909”, Vintage

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Education, Laughter, Inspiration

Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.92, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.

Life Is, Exciting, Imaginary

Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.

Sweet, Dust, Tree

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.69, Wordsworth Editions

Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.

Artist, Criticism, Want

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