More Quotes by Virginia Woolf
For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.
Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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.
Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.