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The depths of the sea are only water after all.

Ocean Depths, Water’s Nature, Sea Reflection, Ocean, Water, Depths

The depths of the sea are only water after all

The depths of the sea are only water after all

The depths of the sea are only water after all

Virginia Woolf’s Quotes On Topics

More Virginia Woolf Quotes

“When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.”

Ordinary beauty, Hidden meaning, Sensory satisfaction, Art, Perception, Aesthetics

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”

Self Honesty, Truth Seeking, Personal Integrity, Honesty, Identity, Reflection

“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.”

Voice Winter, Evening Silence, Beauty Reflection, Voice, Winter, Beauty

“It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.”

Life's Essence, Pure Simplicity, Delicate Dance, Nature, Joy, Beauty

“Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.”

Foreign Humor, Language Barriers, Cultural Gifts, Humor, Language, Culture

“To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!”

Desire Wanting, Emotion Heart, Life Reflection, Desire, Emotion, Heart

“Facts are all that they can offer us, and facts are a very inferior form of fiction.”

Facts vs Fiction, Truth Expression, Reality, Perception, Philosophy, Art

“The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.”

Mind, Perception, Intellectualism, Thought, Reasoning, Reflection

“I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.”

Mind's Unreality, Splendid Absurdity, Voluptuous Imagination, Mind, Imagination, Absurdity

“First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.”

Time passage, Irrevocable moment, Musical warning, Time, Change, Fate

“Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.”

Love, Womanhood, Poetry, Emotion, Expression, Romance

“I really don’t advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married.”

Marriage Critique, Independence Advice, Autonomy, Reflection, Freedom, Choice

“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

“She was the most beautiful person he had ever seen. With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets.”

Mystical Beauty, Romantic Admiration, Poetic Imagery, Love, Grace, Nature

“Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.”

Literary Excellence, English Classics, Appreciation, Maturity, Legacy, Depth

“Mr. Oscar Browning was a great figure in Cambridge at one time, and used to examine the students at Girton and Newnham. Mr. Oscar Browning was wont to declare “that the impression left on his mind, after looking over any set of examination papers, was that, irrespective of the marks he might give, the best woman was intellectually the inferior of the worst man."”

Intellectual inequality, Gender bias, Academic evaluation, Women, Education, Misogyny

“Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.”

Life Tragedy, Fear Existence, Walking Fate, Life, Walking, Fear

“I was lying in bed this morning and saying to myself, ‘the remarkable thing about Ethel is her stupendous self-satisfaction’ when in came your letter to confirm this profound psychological observation. How delighted I was!”

Self-Satisfaction, Psychological Insight, Personal Reflection, Letters, Humor, Life

“I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.”

Emotional Depth, Silent Suffering, Personal Connection, Humanity, Affection, Sensitivity

“My spine is soft like wax near the flame of the candle. I dream; I dream.”

Dreamy Softness, Waxlike Spine, Flame Reflection, Dream, Flame, Softness