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
circles air musical
First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.
time space childhood
That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
intellectual materials depends
Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.
trouble candle millions
A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one
nature tears together
Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.
solitude clumsiness
. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.
frivolous ifs
Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.
love food sleep
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
notebook phrases stories
I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found the story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories?
insanity age veils
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
frail
Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
literature antagonist felt
And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.
good-night winter sound
Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.
london walks
. . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest.