Virginia Woolf Quotes

Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
British Author
Born: Jan 25, 1882
Died: Mar 28, 1941
Life Man Mind People Woman You
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. Virginia Woolf
Truth You Yourself People Other Tell About Cannot
Arrange whatever pieces come your way. Virginia Woolf
Whatever Way Come Pieces Arrange Your
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. Virginia Woolf
Soul People Other Once Outer Nerves Finer Indifferent Steals Faculties Over Inward She Callous Emptiness Because Becomes Dull Conform Show Lethargy
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. Virginia Woolf
Soul Believe Changes Sun Altering Optimism Forever Ageing Aspect Hence
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. Virginia Woolf
Thought Worse Locked Out Unpleasant Perhaps How
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? Virginia Woolf
Me Passion Own Humming Machinery Unaccountable My Own Diving Roaring Most Always Brain Buried Soaring Then Mud Why Buzzing
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. Virginia Woolf
Beautiful Time Emotions Past Complete Later About Only Emotion Never Thus Because Note Present
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. Virginia Woolf
Life Life Is A Beginning Gig Envelope Arranged Halo End Surrounding Lamps Us Series Luminous Consciousness
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. Virginia Woolf
Truth Business Fight Thinking Our Puncture Seeds Mental Bags Discover Current Against Means Gas
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. Virginia Woolf
Thoughts Eyes Others Our Prisons
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. Virginia Woolf
Truth Dreams Sometimes Our Our Dreams Top Idleness
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. Virginia Woolf
Happiness Life Man Independence Too Independent Bored Temperate Only Through Never He Himself Short Who Aware Profound
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. Virginia Woolf
Life Soul Quality Experience Mind Every Secret Writer Written His Large Works
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. Virginia Woolf
Life Spider Corners Slightly Scarcely Web Attached Attachment Like Perhaps Still Often Fiction Ever Four
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. Virginia Woolf
Man Women Natural Glasses Power Looking Possessing Reflecting Size Centuries Figure Twice Served
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art. Virginia Woolf
Art Nature Human Nature Unless Over Like Human Really
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. Virginia Woolf
Own Telephone Observations Weighty Most Short Romance Romantic Which Conversations Cuts Serious
On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. Virginia Woolf
Every Some Points Observant Fellow Who Agony
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. Virginia Woolf
Man Woman Simple Pure Manly Must Be A Man Womanly Fatal
Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe. Virginia Woolf
Heart Charity Mind Rest Tolerance Scarcely Magnanimity Where Senses Biggest Room Them Breathe
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves. Virginia Woolf
Freedom Control Enjoy Ourselves
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. Virginia Woolf
Life Death Value Rest Someone More Die Order Us Should
It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality. Virginia Woolf
Reality Difficult More Than Far Phantom
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title. Virginia Woolf
Heart Book Past Only Like Him Read Known Leaves His Friends Title Each Shut
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. Virginia Woolf
Heart World Laughter Beauty Asunder Anguish Soon Perish Edges Which Cutting Two
I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it. Virginia Woolf
God Book Job Think Out Well Read Last Night Last Night
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