1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

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

I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I have fought against it but cannot fight any longer.

Life stand still here.

For nothing was simply one thing.

The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.

Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.

We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.

You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.

Do not move, do not go. Sink within this moment. Hold it for ever.