More Quotes by Virginia Woolf
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.
In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
