Virginia Woolf Quotes, Flames Quotes, Literature Quotes

The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Flames Quotes , Literature Quotes

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , Mind Quotes

No one would think of bringing a dog into church. For though a dog is all very well on a gravel path, and shows no disrespect to flowers, the way he wanders down an aisle, looking, lifting a paw, and approaching a pillar with a purpose that makes the blood run cold with horror ... a dog destroys the service completely.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Running Quotes , Dog Quotes

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Life Quotes , Sleep Quotes

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

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Perfect Quotes , Months Quotes

To know whom to write for is to know how to write.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , Know How Quotes

People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Book Quotes , People Quotes

To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Peace Quotes , Looks Quotes

So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Girl Quotes , Men Quotes

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man; some think even greater.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Women Quotes

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Believe Quotes

Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Names Quotes , Sometimes Quotes

Happily, at forty-six I still feel as experimental and on the verge of getting at the truth as ever.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Six Quotes , Feels Quotes

She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Beach Quotes , Littles Quotes

There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Artist Quotes

There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Heart Quotes , Brain Quotes

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Ebb And Flow Quotes , Veins Quotes

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Life Quotes , Lying Quotes

The depths of the sea are only water after all.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Sea Quotes , Water Quotes