“But it is always a question whether I wish to avoid these glooms. These weeks give one a plunge into deep waters.… — 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
At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial-and any question about sex is that-one cannot hope to tell the truth. One… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Life is difficult; facts uncompromising; and the passage to that fabled land where our brightest hopes are extinguished, our frail barks founder… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is equally vain,” she thought, “for you to think you can protect me, or for me to think I can worship… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them; it is for you to… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
