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
mrs-dalloway pity feels
It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
literature antagonist felt
And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.
boards
Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once.
lighthouse one-thing
For nothing was simply one thing.
soul atmosphere earth
Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
sports weed wind
For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way between the boles of giant weeds, over sun-flickered spaces and on and on into gloom, cold, deep, inscrutable; suddenly she shoots to the surface and sports on the wind-wrinkled waves; that is, has a positive need to brush, scrape, kindle herself, gossiping.
people different made
I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
thinking solitude needs
For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone.
writing darkness existence
When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.
mind pure
Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure
growing-up order losing
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
writing voice people
What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice.
good-night winter sound
Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.
sleep draught fatigue
Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.