Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf, known professionally as Virginia Woolf, was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 January 1882
CityLondon, England
benefits cannot fighting gratify insist instinct protect rationally sex shared understood
If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ''our'' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share.
again comfort habits rush shall week zest
It will be all over this day week - comfort - discomfort; and the zest and rush that no engagements, hours, habits give. Then we shall take them up again with more than the zest of traveling.
witty jobs book
I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
peace war clothes
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
strong-women adversity people
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
women writing secret
If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
time believe optimistic
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
romantic cutting romance
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
world mrs-dalloway ends
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.
way stills still-life
Still, life had a way of adding day to day
phrases wander higher
I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.
fall doors feet
Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.
pain virginia blood
For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of space ; the sense also of extreme fixity in passing objects ; and sounds very remote and then very close ; flesh being gashed and blood sparting, a joint suddenly twisted - beneath all of which appears something very important, yet remote, to be just held in solitude.” — Virginia Woolf, The Waves
heart mrs-dalloway
Fear no more, says the heart...