Virginia Woolf Quotes

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
Virginia Woolf

Life, Happiness, Bored

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
Virginia Woolf

Nature, Art, Human

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
Virginia Woolf

Romantic, Short, Serious

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia Woolf

Beauty, Heart, Laughter

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
Virginia Woolf

Mind, Heart, Tolerance

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
Virginia Woolf

Women, Men, Friendly

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
Virginia Woolf

Power, Creative, Whole

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
Virginia Woolf

Simple, Woman, Manly

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Virginia Woolf

Nature, Men, Mind

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
Virginia Woolf

Life, Courage, Saying

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
Virginia Woolf

Boredom, Kingdom, Legitimate

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
Virginia Woolf

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf

Dreams, Truth, Sometimes

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
Virginia Woolf

Reality, Difficult, Far

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
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Human, Place, Sense

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
Virginia Woolf

Father, Less, Slavery

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
Virginia Woolf

Best, Poetry, True

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
Virginia Woolf

Money, Nothing, Writing

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Virginia Woolf

Down, Triumph, Likes

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
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War, Between, Far

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
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Good, Quality, Draw

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
Virginia Woolf

Time, Together, Romance

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
Virginia Woolf

Woman, Thinking, Old

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
Virginia Woolf

Work, Age, Hard

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
Virginia Woolf

Fellow, Agony, Observant

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: January 25, 1882

Died: March 28, 1941

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