Virginia Woolf Quotes about Feelings

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All extremes of feeling are allied to madness.

All extremes of feeling are allied to madness.

Virginia Woolf

Feelings, Madness, Extremes

"Orlando: A Biography".

...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.

Virginia Woolf

Feelings, One Day, Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.132, Wordsworth Editions

If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?

Virginia Woolf

Mean, Reality, Feelings

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.445, Delphi Classics

How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?

Virginia Woolf

Mean, Reality, Feelings

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

The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon; no perception comes amiss.

Virginia Woolf

Feelings, Perception, Brain

Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.12, Oxford University Press

I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say “This is it”? My depression is a harassed feeling. I’m looking: but that’s not it — that’s not it. What is it? And shall I die before I find it?

Virginia Woolf

Discovery, Hands, Feelings

Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.97, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations.

Virginia Woolf

Character, People, Feelings

A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.

Virginia Woolf

Lying, People, Feelings

Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.184, Broadview Press

It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.

Virginia Woolf

Feelings, Machines, Critical Moments

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1120, Delphi Classics