Author: Virginia Woolf

Quotes

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

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

- Virginia Woolf

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

- 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

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

- Virginia Woolf

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

- Virginia Woolf

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

- 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

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

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

- Virginia Woolf

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