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Virginia Woolf - From the Aging category:
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again – as I always am when I write. (Virginia Woolf)
Virginia Woolf - From the Artists category:
The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent... there must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed. (Virginia Woolf)
Virginia Woolf - From the Beauty category:
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. (Virginia Woolf)
Virginia Woolf - From the Collaboration category:
Some collaboration has to take place in the mind... before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. (Virginia Woolf)
Virginia Woolf - From the Freedom category:
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves. (Virginia Woolf)
Virginia Woolf - From the Friendship category:
I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street. (Virginia Woolf)
Virginia Woolf - From the Friendship category:
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. (Virginia Woolf)
Virginia Woolf - From the Gender category:
- A Room of One's Own, 1929...
All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are sides, and it is necessary for one side to beat another side. (Virginia Woolf)
Virginia Woolf - From the Gender category:
- A Room of One's Own, 1929...
Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size. (Virginia Woolf)
Virginia Woolf - From the Habit category:
The skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. (Virginia Woolf)
Virginia Woolf - From the Ideas category:
To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. (Virginia Woolf)
Virginia Woolf - From the Indolence category:
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. (Virginia Woolf)
Virginia Woolf - From the Peace category:
You cannot find peace by avoiding life. (Virginia Woolf)
Virginia Woolf - From the Poetry category:
Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. (Virginia Woolf)
Virginia Woolf - From the Poetry category:
But she lives; for great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh. (Virginia Woolf)
Virginia Woolf - From the Power category:
The creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything. (Virginia Woolf)
Virginia Woolf - From the Sleep category:
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. (Virginia Woolf)
Virginia Woolf - From the Solitude category:
In solitude, we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us. (Virginia Woolf)
Virginia Woolf - From the Titles category:
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. (Virginia Woolf)
Virginia Woolf - From the Truth category:
One goes down into the well and nothing protects one from the assault of the truth. (Virginia Woolf)
Virginia Woolf - From the Understanding category:
It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. (Virginia Woolf)
Virginia Woolf - From the Writing category:
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. (Virginia Woolf)
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