Virginia Woolf Quotes about Reality

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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.

Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.

Virginia Woolf

Reality, Tea, Cups Of Tea

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

Virginia Woolf

Reality, Phantoms, Harder

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

If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women.

Virginia Woolf

Reality, Men, World

Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.149

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

It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality.

Virginia Woolf

Reality, Tears, Transparency

To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.

Virginia Woolf

Reality, Literature, Disease

Virginia Woolf (2006). “Orlando (Annotated): A Biography”, p.123, HMH

Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us.

Virginia Woolf

Writing, Reality, Thinking

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2687, 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

Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the trees ... one's happiness, one's reality?

Virginia Woolf

Lying, Past, Reality

Virginia Woolf (2015). “Monday or Tuesday”, p.47, Virginia Woolf

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Virginia Woolf

Blessing, Reality, Boredom

Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (1977). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1915-1919”, Chatto & Windus

What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying

Virginia Woolf

Reality, Light, Groups

Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.143

His eyes were bright, and, indeed, he scarcely knew whether they held dreams or realities...and in five minutes she had filled the shell of the old dream with the flesh of life.

Virginia Woolf

Dream, Eye, Reality

Virginia Woolf Quotes about Reality

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