Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
Virginia Woolf
Biographer Creativity, Writing Facts, Knowledge Reflection, Biographer, Writing, Knowledge
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Romantic Perception | Winter Nature | Heaven | Illusions Life | Criticism Response | Dependence | Novels | Suggestive Power | Storytelling Fatigue | Mind's Unreality | Self-discipline | Nature’s Beauty | Cuisine | Ordinary Strength | Intense Emotions | Spirituality | Attraction | Travel | Water Life | Triumph | More
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
“So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living.” Virginia Woolf
Life’s Hypnosis, Existential Wonder, Contemplation, Bewilderment, Reflection, Awareness
Virginia Woolf Life’s Hypnosis, Existential Wonder, Contemplation, Bewilderment, Reflection, Awareness“Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.” Virginia Woolf
Selfish Tendencies, Fleeting Faith, Humanity, Reflection, Cynicism, Awareness
Virginia Woolf Selfish Tendencies, Fleeting Faith, Humanity, Reflection, Cynicism, Awareness“As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.” Virginia Woolf
Global Identity, Women Empowerment, Personal Freedom, Equality, Independence, Humanity
Virginia Woolf Global Identity, Women Empowerment, Personal Freedom, Equality, Independence, Humanity“Meanwhile, let us abolish the ticking of time’s clock with one blow. Come closer.” Virginia Woolf
Time Freedom, Moment Embrace, Present Connection, Time, Freedom, Moment
Virginia Woolf Time Freedom, Moment Embrace, Present Connection, Time, Freedom, Moment“Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.” Virginia Woolf
Literary Excellence, English Classics, Appreciation, Maturity, Legacy, Depth
Virginia Woolf Literary Excellence, English Classics, Appreciation, Maturity, Legacy, Depth“It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.” Virginia Woolf
Artist Struggles, Artistic Expression, Public Opinion, Self-Doubt, Creative Struggle, Literature
Virginia Woolf Artist Struggles, Artistic Expression, Public Opinion, Self-Doubt, Creative Struggle, Literature“A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.” Virginia Woolf
Masterpiece creation, Literary perfection, Artistic statement, Art, Writing, Mastery
Virginia Woolf Masterpiece creation, Literary perfection, Artistic statement, Art, Writing, Mastery“Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.” Virginia Woolf
Love, Womanhood, Poetry, Emotion, Expression, Romance
Virginia Woolf Love, Womanhood, Poetry, Emotion, Expression, Romance“I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.” Virginia Woolf
Writer’s Block, Overwhelm, Self-Reflection, Creative Struggles, Regret, Expression
Virginia Woolf Writer’s Block, Overwhelm, Self-Reflection, Creative Struggles, Regret, Expression“Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?” Virginia Woolf
Human Form, Written Words, Self-Discovery, Life Reflection, Identity, Literature
Virginia Woolf Human Form, Written Words, Self-Discovery, Life Reflection, Identity, Literature“Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!” Virginia Woolf
Love, Religion, Thought, Conflict, Emotion, Identity
Virginia Woolf Love, Religion, Thought, Conflict, Emotion, Identity“I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind’s passage through the world, achieve in the end some kind of whole made of shivering fragments.” Virginia Woolf
Beauty Symmetry, Mind's Passage, Discorded Fragments, Beauty, Mind, Fragments
Virginia Woolf Beauty Symmetry, Mind's Passage, Discorded Fragments, Beauty, Mind, Fragments“Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.” Virginia Woolf
Language Expression, Writing Communication, Art Reflection, Language, Writing, Art
Virginia Woolf Language Expression, Writing Communication, Art Reflection, Language, Writing, Art“Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall.” Virginia Woolf
Inner Peace, Collective Healing, Renewal, Surrender, Acceptance, Letting Go
Virginia Woolf Inner Peace, Collective Healing, Renewal, Surrender, Acceptance, Letting Go“One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one’s words.” Virginia Woolf
Solitary Words, Ocean Depths, Self Reflection, Solitude, Words, Reflection
Virginia Woolf Solitary Words, Ocean Depths, Self Reflection, Solitude, Words, Reflection“Tragedies come in the hungry hours.” Virginia Woolf
Tragic moments, Emotional hunger, Life’s tragedy, Suffering, Time, Emotion
Virginia Woolf Tragic moments, Emotional hunger, Life’s tragedy, Suffering, Time, Emotion“The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.” Virginia Woolf
Women's history, Gender silence, Feminine narrative, History, Women, Gender
Virginia Woolf Women's history, Gender silence, Feminine narrative, History, Women, Gender“I am not one and simple, but complex and many.” Virginia Woolf
Self Complexity, Personal Growth, Inner Layers, Identity, Psychology, Diversity
Virginia Woolf Self Complexity, Personal Growth, Inner Layers, Identity, Psychology, Diversity