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For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

Pleasure Sharing, Human Connection, Happiness, Relationships, Joy, Solitude

For pleasure has no relish unless we share it

For pleasure has no relish unless we share it

For pleasure has no relish unless we share it

Virginia Woolf’s Quotes On Topics

More Virginia Woolf Quotes

“Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.”

Rhythmic style, Writing technique, Word choice, Language, Writing, Simplicity

“Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched – love for instance – we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.”

Life Pretension, Human Nature, Love, Logical Story, Emotional Stages, Existentialism

“For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.”

Reading, Writing, Creativity, Literature, Expression, Art

“I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.”

Writing Mediumship, Personal Connection, Creative Process, Writing, Expression, Transformation

“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.”

Literature, Opinions, Self-Doubt, Public Perception, Creativity, Struggle

“The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.”

Telephone romance, Conversation interruption, Serious talk, Technology, Communication, Distraction

“To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.”

Freedom Control, Self Mastery, Personal Discipline, Freedom, Control, Discipline

“I” is only a convenient term for somebody who has no real being.”

Existence Questioned, Self Identity, Philosophical Inquiry, Self, Philosophy, Being

“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”

Resistance Emancipation, Gender Politics, Struggle, History, Injustice, Reflection

“Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life.”

Loss Control, Life's Pain, Self Reflection, Control, Life, Pain

“Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.”

Creative Madness, Passion Expression, Inspiration, Depth, Intensity, Chaos

“Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know.”

Lonely Freedom, Condemned Isolation, Sublime Solitude, Freedom, Solitude, Isolation

“To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.”

Solitude, Inner self, Personal silence, Isolation, Introspection, Darkness

“Whenever you see a board up with “Trespassers will be prosecuted,” trespass at once.”

Rebellion, Authority, Trespassing, Defiance, Civil Disobedience, Rules

“Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One’s Mind about Another Person.”

Love Illusion, Romantic Perception, Mind Stories, Illusion, Love, Perception

“I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.”

Mood Change, Female Identity, Writing Power, Identity, Writing, Womanhood

“Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.”

Life, Time, Opportunity, Silence, Existence, Fate

“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.”

Beauty Symmetry, Mind's Passage, Discorded Fragments, Beauty, Mind, Fragments

“I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.”

Writer’s Block, Overwhelm, Self-Reflection, Creative Struggles, Regret, Expression

“A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one.”

Inner Light, Personal Struggle, Self Awareness, Energy, Metaphor, Humanity