“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
— Virginia Woolf“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
— Virginia Woolf“The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”
— Virginia Woolf“He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.”
— Virginia Woolf“Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.”
— Virginia Woolf“The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.”
— Virginia Woolf“Septimus has been working too hard - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought.”
— Virginia Woolf“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.”
— Virginia Woolf“My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.”
— Virginia Woolf“The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.”
— Virginia WoolfSome people go to priests. Others to poetry. I to my friends.
— Virginia WoolfSome people go to priests. Others to poetry. I to my friends.
— Virginia WoolfThere is no beauty in a happy ending, only a fleeting one.
— Virginia WoolfBangles adorn not just the wrist, but the spirit of a woman, reflecting her strength and elegance.
— Virginia WoolfThe emotionless are often misunderstood; they have simply mastered the art of emotional restraint.
— Virginia Woolf