More Quotes by Virginia Woolf
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.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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.
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 feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.
In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
