"In illness words seem to possess a mystic…" — Virginia Woolf
"In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality."
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642 Quotes by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf has 642 quotes on this site.
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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly,…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be…
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung…
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to…
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet…
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how…
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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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More Illness Quotes
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Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No…
— Lance Armstrong
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
— Sholem Asch
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My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and…
— Lee Atwater
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If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
— Margaret Atwood
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A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are,…
— Lauren Bacall
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I always had a dissociative disorder. But I healed from it over the course of 14 years of big-time therapy.…
— Roseanne Barr
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Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care.…
— Jello Biafra
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Depression is a physical illness.
— Terry Bradshaw
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The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness.…
— Rita Mae Brown
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Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until…
— Frank Bruno
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Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be…
— Frank Bruno
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