Author: Virginia Woolf

Quotes

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

- 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

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

- Virginia Woolf

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 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

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

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

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

- 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

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