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
havens
Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.
eye writing practice
But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. Never mind the misses and the stumbles.
children house anxiety
My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.
wish lovers poet
And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.
moments despised
These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.
gifted one-time
I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.
dream waking life-is
By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
plato eye vision
The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life…
acquiescence intensity passive
I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.
boots stones kicks
The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.
discovery hands feelings
I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say “This is it”? My depression is a harassed feeling. I’m looking: but that’s not it — that’s not it. What is it? And shall I die before I find it?
truth business mean
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
women simple womanly
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
peace lasts faces
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...