My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There is no doubt in my mind, that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But none speaks with a single voice. None with a voice free from the old vibrations. Always I hear corrupt murmurs; the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I need someone whose mind falls like a chopper on a block; to whom the pitch of absurdity is sublime, and a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Purposely, perhaps, Mary did not agree with Ralph; she loved to feel her mind in conflict with his, and to be certain… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I am clouded and bruised with the print of minds and faces and things so subtle that they have smell, colour, texture,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She did not know. She did not mind...She had a sense of being past everything, through everything, out of everything...-and one could… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how many different people are… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The mind of man works with strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I took the print of life not outwardly, but inwardly upon the raw, the white, the unprotected fibre. I am clouded and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“to possess one single thing (it is Louis now) must waver, like the light in and out of the beech leaves; and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying what we think, then how little… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“she heard some voice saying she couldn't paint, saying she couldn't create, as if she were caught up in one of those… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Those great wars which the body wages with the mind a slave to it, in the solitude of the bedroom against the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But what might be written in the book which had rounded its edges off in his pocket, she did not know. What… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“... All who have brought about a state of sex-consciousness are to blame, and it is they who drive me, when I… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“...she imagined how in the chambers of the mind and heart of the woman who was, physically, touching her, were stood, like… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“being an artist: "And this susceptibility of theirs is doubly unfortunate , I thought, returning again to my original enquiry into what… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She has no body as others have. People have no meaning to her. She has no answer for them. Her mind steps… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“One must own that there are certain books which can be read without the mind and without the heart, but still with… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“There's no doubt in my mind that I've found out how to begin at this age to say sth in my own… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality has no such simple effect upon the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I, who am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement, make this mark, waiting for some… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life -… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“For one's children so often gave one's own perceptions a little thrust forwards.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
![“... All who have brought about a state of sex-consciousness are to blame, and it is they who drive me, when I want to stretch my faculties on a book, to seek it in that happy age ... when the writer used both sides of his mind [the male and female sides of his mind] equally. One must turn back to…” quote by Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/107/virginia-woolf-49_androgyny_all-who-have-brought-about-a-state-of-se_2271608.jpg)
