Author: Virginia Woolf

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

- 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

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

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