Virginia Woolf Quotes
Virginia Woolf Quote of the day
No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes
Sometimes she arches away from me and wears a light halo of genius about her.
[Shakespeare} the word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple
There was an emptiness about the heart of life
I begin to be impatient of solitude - to feel its draperies hang sweltering, unwholesome about me.
She put on her lace collar. She put on her new hat and he never noticed
She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine ...
Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then—our friends are not able to finish their stories.
I wished I hadn’t majored in women filling their pockets with stones and sticking their heads into ovens. Maybe tomorrow the pinhole would widen and I would want to be a marine biologist.
anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.
