Nature Quotes by Virginia Woolf

Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.

— Virginia Woolf

Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began?

— Virginia Woolf

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

— Virginia Woolf

“Once you stumble... human nature is on you.”

— Virginia Woolf

“For ourselves, who are ordinary men and women, let us return thanks to Nature for her bounty by using every one of…

— Virginia Woolf

“He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of…

— Virginia Woolf

“Nature, who has played so many queer tricks upon us, making us so unequally of clay and diamonds...”

— Virginia Woolf

To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease…

— Virginia Woolf

“Sitting down on a bank to wait for my train, I thought then how we surrender, how we submit to the stupidity…

— Virginia Woolf

“Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces”

— Virginia Woolf

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together…

— Virginia Woolf

The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of…

— Virginia Woolf

“For it has come about, by the wise economy of nature, that our modern spirit can almost dispense with language; the commonest…

— Virginia Woolf

Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert.…

— Virginia Woolf

“Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth. Roll up that tender air and the plant dies, the colour…

— Virginia Woolf

“There was silence. Then as if to refresh the power of destruction, the wind rose and the waves rose and through the…

— Virginia Woolf

“It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, half-way down, in…

— Virginia Woolf

“[W]e cease to be soldiers in the army of the upright; we become deserters. They march to battle. We float with the…

— Virginia Woolf

It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down…

— Virginia Woolf

“I should need to be a herd of elephants, I thought, and a wilderness of spiders, desperately referring to the animals that…

— Virginia Woolf

“Hail! natural desire! Hail! happiness! divine happiness! and pleasure of all sorts, flowers and wine, though one fades and the other intoxicates;…

— Virginia Woolf

I remember I would not stand still; I would not stop being perplexed by everything that spontaneously attracted me or caught my…

— Virginia Woolf

“How then does light return to the world after the eclipse of the sun? Miraculously. Frailly. In thin stripes. It hangs like…

— Virginia Woolf

I went from one to the other holding my sorrow - no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our…

— Virginia Woolf

“He was not afraid. At every moment Nature signified by some laughing hint like that gold spot which went round the wall--there,…

— Virginia Woolf

“I see the mountains in the sky; the great clouds; and the moon; I have a great and astonishing sense of something…

— Virginia Woolf

He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of…

— Virginia Woolf

“There were mountains; there were valleys; there were streams. She climbed the mountains; roamed the valleys; sat on the banks of streams…when,…

— Virginia Woolf

“What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the…

— Virginia Woolf

“You have been reading Byron. You have been marking the passages that seem to approve of your own character. I find marks…

— Virginia Woolf

“He sighed profoundly, and flung himself - there was a passion in his movements which deserves the word - on the earth…

— Virginia Woolf

“But if sleep it was, of what nature, we can scarcely refrain from asking, are such sleeps as these? Are they remedial…

— Virginia Woolf

“Nature, who has played so many queer tricks upon us, making us so unequally of clay and diamonds, of rainbow and granite,…

— Virginia Woolf

“so that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo…

— Virginia Woolf

“One holds every phrase, every scene to the light as one reads - for Nature seems, very oddly, to have provided us…

— Virginia Woolf

“He wondered why on earth he had asked these people, and what one really expected to get from bunching human beings up…

— Virginia Woolf

But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt…

— Virginia Woolf

Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.

— Virginia Woolf

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of…

— Virginia Woolf

“The strongest natures, when they are influenced, submit the most unreservedly; it is perhaps a sign of their strength.”

— Virginia Woolf