Virginia Woolf Quotes about Desire

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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

Virginia Woolf

Desire, Daily Life, Inarticulate

Virginia Woolf (1990). “A moment's liberty: the shorter diary”, Vintage

I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh.

Virginia Woolf

Museums, Lust, Desire

Virginia Woolf (1976). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf”

To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.

Virginia Woolf

Men, Envy, Desire

Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.16, Oxford University Press