Quotes from Virginia Woolf
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
- Virginia Woolf
Up goes the rocket. Its golden grain falls, fertilising, upon the rich soil of my imagination.
- Virginia Woolf
Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.
- Virginia Woolf
I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.
- Virginia Woolf
I am rooted, but I flow.
- Virginia Woolf
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
- Virginia Woolf
Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
- Virginia Woolf
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
- Virginia Woolf
Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.
- Virginia Woolf
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
- Virginia Woolf
The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.
- Virginia Woolf
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
- Virginia Woolf