109 Quotations by Virginia Woolf
- 41. It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with ...
- 42. It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and ...
- 43. Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for ...
- 44. Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparen ...
- 45. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
- 46. Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in c ...
- 47. Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bag ...
- 48. Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be subst ...
- 49. Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every ye ...
- 50. My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery -- always buzzing, humming, soaring roarin ...
- 51. My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery -- always buzzing, humming, soaring roarin ...
- 52. Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest th ...
- 53. Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of ro ...
- 54. Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever t ...
- 55. On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
- 56. Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the fi ...
- 57. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
- 58. One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats -- and one always secre ...
- 59. One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than whe ...
- 60. One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as w ...
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