More Quotes by Virginia Woolf
The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.
Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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.
I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
I am rooted, but I flow.
Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
