Virginia Woolf Quotes, Years Quotes, One Day Quotes

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Years Quotes , One Day Quotes

What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Dark Quotes , Simple Quotes

I was lying in bed this morning and saying to myself, 'the remarkable thing about Ethel is her stupendous self-satisfaction' when in came your letter to confirm this profound psychological observation. How delighted I was!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Morning Quotes , Lying Quotes

Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Book Quotes , Domes Quotes

Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Names Quotes , Sometimes Quotes

King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Kings Quotes , Character Quotes

I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Healing Quotes

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Art Quotes , Reading Quotes

But what a little I can get down into my pen of what is so vivid to my eyes, and not only to my eyes; also to some nervous fibre, or fanlike membrane in my species.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Eye Quotes , Littles Quotes

How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Ghost Stories Quotes , Feelings Quotes

The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Letters Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes

That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under drifts of sand, regardless of lures, of seductions; to be poor always and unkempt; to be ridiculous in Piccadilly.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Glorious Life Quotes , Curves Quotes

I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Divine Quotes

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Beauty Quotes , Beautiful Quotes

I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Acquiescence Quotes , Intensity Quotes

And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , Demand Quotes

How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Lovely Quotes , World Quotes

madam," the man cried, leaping to the ground, "you're hurt!" "I'm dead, sir!" she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Hurt Quotes , Men Quotes

For women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Past Quotes