More Quotes by Virginia Woolf
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.
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
Love had a thousand shapes.
For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.
Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
A light here required a shadow there.
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.
