Virginia Woolf Quotes about Passion

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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

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.

Virginia Woolf

Believe, Passion, Cutting

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

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

Virginia Woolf

Passion, Yield, Rooms

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

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Virginia Woolf

Passion, Reflection, Brain

Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicolson, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1979). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935”, Harvest Books

The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence -- the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.

Virginia Woolf

Strong, Passion, Light

Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.79, Broadview Press

Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

Virginia Woolf

Passion, Yield, Civilization

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

The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?

Virginia Woolf

Passion, Maps, London

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.70, Wordsworth Editions

Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.

Virginia Woolf

Jealousy, Passion, Mankind

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.179, Wordsworth Editions

To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone.

Virginia Woolf

Passion, Games, Feeling Alone

Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.43, Collector's Library

No passion is stronger in the breast of 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. Whigs and Tories, Liberal party and Labour party - for what do they battle except their own prestige? It is not love of truth but desire to prevail that sets quarter against quarter and makes subserviency rather than the triumph of truth and the exaltation of virtue - but these moralities belong, and should be left to the historian, since they are as dull as ditch water.

Virginia Woolf

Party, Believe, Passion

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

There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.

Virginia Woolf

Passion, Writing, Gone

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

A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish between his fingers. A reader, on the other hand, must check the desire for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good, but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist or an authority, is very apt to kill what suits us to consider the more humane passion for pure and disinterested reading.

Virginia Woolf

Reading, Book, Passion

Virginia Woolf, Andrew McNeillie (1986). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918”, Harcourt