Virginia Woolf Quotes

We insist, it seems, on living.

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I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.

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There'll be oceans of talk and emotions without end.

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Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.

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The world is crammed with delightful things

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...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.

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The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth.

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You have been in every way all that anyone could be.... If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.

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Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

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Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.

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to teach without zest is a crime.

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I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.

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Soup is cuisines kindest course

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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.

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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

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All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made.

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Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)

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Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that very glibness.

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In marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house.

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