Quotes from Virginia Woolf
Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.
- Virginia Woolf
For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.
- Virginia Woolf
Be truthful, one would say, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
- Virginia Woolf
After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.
- Virginia Woolf
There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death…
- Virginia Woolf
Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the center which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.
- Virginia Woolf
Marvelous are the innocent.
- Virginia Woolf
Life is difficult; facts uncompromising; and the passage to that fabled land where our brightest hopes are extinguished, our frail barks founder in darkness, one that needs, above all, courage, truth, and the power to endure.
- Virginia Woolf
It was awful, he cried, awful, awful! Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.
- Virginia Woolf
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality
- Virginia Woolf
You wish to be a poet; you wish to be a lover. But the splendid clarity of your intelligence, and the remorseless honestly of your intellect bring you to a halt.
- Virginia Woolf
Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
- Virginia Woolf