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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. ― Virginia Woolf
Food Quotes
Virginia Woolf
Sleep
Dined
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. — Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
History Quotes
Historical Quote
Beautiful
Emotion
Present
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. ― Virginia Woolf
Money Quotes
Woman
Money
Room
Virginia Woolf
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. ― Virginia Woolf
Quotes About Freedom
Libraries
Freedom
Virginia Woolf
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.
― Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Coffee
Sea
Knives
Intimacy is a difficult art.
― Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Art
Intimacy
Difficult
In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
― Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Life
Memories
Giving
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
― Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Inspirational
Honesty
Lying
I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
― Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Shadow
Skins
Feels
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.
― Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Life
Dream
Hair
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.
― Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Beautiful
Healing
Delight
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.
― Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Reading
Giving
Advice
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
― Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Life
Order
Should
How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?
― Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Life
People
Used
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.
― Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Life
Halos
Lamps
I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married
― Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Way
Want
Married
We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
― Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Music
I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.
― Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Healing
Overwhelmed
Found
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
― Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Inspirational
Needs
Sparkle
A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
― Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Self
GoesOn
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