More Quotes by Virginia Woolf
A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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.
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.
Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
