Virginia Woolf Quotes, Thoughts and images
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
I am rooted, but I flow.
Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you
Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me, you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
A light here required a shadow there.
Intimacy is a difficult art.
all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
Thinking is my fighting.
Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.
I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
As a woman, I have no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.
Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.
beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
The depths of the sea are only water after all.
Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.
I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.
Books are the mirrors of the soul.