I want to dance, laugh, eat pink cakes, yellow cakes, drink thin, sharp wine. Or an indecent story, now – I could relish that. The older one grows the more one likes indecency.
Virginia Woolf
Desire, Life, Fun, Experience, Indecency, Age
Virginia Woolf’s Quotes On Topics
Inner Madness | Consequence | Woman | Freedom Conditions | Gender Change | Self Consciousness | Mysticism | Historical Focus | Thought Diversity | Surface And Depth | Writing Truth | Reading Power | Emotional Vulnerability | Invention | Moment Emotion | Sleep | Fear Life | Depth | Art Escape | Meaningful Living | More
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
“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“But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up in my mind and so making a perpetual pageant, which is to be my happiness.” Virginia Woolf
Imagination Happiness, Thought Creativity, Mind Reflection, Imagination, Thought, Happiness
Virginia Woolf Imagination Happiness, Thought Creativity, Mind Reflection, Imagination, Thought, Happiness“That complete statement which is literature.” Virginia Woolf
Literature, Writing, Expression, Art, Meaning, Thought
Virginia Woolf Literature, Writing, Expression, Art, Meaning, Thought“In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.” Virginia Woolf
Solitary Reflection, Life Attention, Memory Focus, Solitude, Memory, Attention
Virginia Woolf Solitary Reflection, Life Attention, Memory Focus, Solitude, Memory, Attention“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“And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.” Virginia Woolf
Existential Loneliness, Life Struggle, Personal Conflict, Solitude, Self, Meaning
Virginia Woolf Existential Loneliness, Life Struggle, Personal Conflict, Solitude, Self, Meaning“If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?” Virginia Woolf
Shakespeare Civilization, Progress History, Human Nature, Shakespeare, History, Progress
Virginia Woolf Shakespeare Civilization, Progress History, Human Nature, Shakespeare, History, Progress“If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.” Virginia Woolf
Gender fight, War critique, Sexual instinct, Feminism, Gender, War
Virginia Woolf Gender fight, War critique, Sexual instinct, Feminism, Gender, War“For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?” Virginia Woolf
Mind Body, Medical Critique, Professional Limitations, Mind, Medicine, Body
Virginia Woolf Mind Body, Medical Critique, Professional Limitations, Mind, Medicine, Body“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.” Virginia Woolf
Creative Order, Universe Power, Artistic Control, Creativity, Power, Order
Virginia Woolf Creative Order, Universe Power, Artistic Control, Creativity, Power, Order“Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing.” Virginia Woolf
Nature, Perception, Life, Reflection, Change, Identity
Virginia Woolf Nature, Perception, Life, Reflection, Change, Identity“The depths of the sea are only water after all.” Virginia Woolf
Ocean Depths, Water’s Nature, Sea Reflection, Ocean, Water, Depths
Virginia Woolf Ocean Depths, Water’s Nature, Sea Reflection, Ocean, Water, Depths“To some few friends, and to thy sorrows sing, For groves of laurel thou wert never meant; Be dark enough thy shades, and be thou there content.” Virginia Woolf
Acceptance Contentment, Sorrow Peace, Reflection, Simplicity, Harmony, Nature
Virginia Woolf Acceptance Contentment, Sorrow Peace, Reflection, Simplicity, Harmony, Nature“Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter’s evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.” Virginia Woolf
Voice Winter, Evening Silence, Beauty Reflection, Voice, Winter, Beauty
Virginia Woolf Voice Winter, Evening Silence, Beauty Reflection, Voice, Winter, Beauty“At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial-and any question about sex is that-one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.” Virginia Woolf
Subjectivity Of Truth, Controversial Topics, Sex Equality, Perspective, Discussion, Honesty
Virginia Woolf Subjectivity Of Truth, Controversial Topics, Sex Equality, Perspective, Discussion, Honesty“Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.” Virginia Woolf
Creative Writing, Writing Topics, Literary Exploration, Books, Travel, Dreams
Virginia Woolf Creative Writing, Writing Topics, Literary Exploration, Books, Travel, Dreams“Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.” Virginia Woolf
Writer's Soul, Personal Experience, Mind Expression, Writing, Soul, Experience
Virginia Woolf Writer's Soul, Personal Experience, Mind Expression, Writing, Soul, Experience“O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.” Virginia Woolf
Writer’s Vulnerability, Criticism Response, Reflection, Artistry, Struggle, Growth
Virginia Woolf Writer’s Vulnerability, Criticism Response, Reflection, Artistry, Struggle, Growth