More Quotes by Virginia Woolf
I am rooted, but I flow.
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.
A light here required a shadow there.
But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.
In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
