Author: Virginia Woolf

Quotes

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

- Virginia Woolf

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

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

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

- Virginia Woolf

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

- Virginia Woolf

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

- Virginia Woolf

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

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

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.

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

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

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

- Virginia Woolf

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.

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.

- Virginia Woolf

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