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
reading people giving
When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.
interesting truthful results
Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
women truth-is completeness
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
life shade too-short
A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.
discovery miracle perpetual
... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.
flower mrs-dalloway said
Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
humility dark men
While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.
heart brain matter
What does the brain matter compared with the heart?
effort mind
They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.
dream travel book
By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream
mind chaos absurd
I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.
being-alone darkness invisible
To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.
women occupation may
Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
frail
Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.