1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

If the best of one’s feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?

I am never stagnant; I rise from my worst disasters, I turn, I change.

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.

What a morning – fresh as if issued to children on a beach.

Semua orang ingin hidup bahagia. Kadang-kadang kita sendiri yang mempersulit keadaan untuk menjadi bahagia.

The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme – thinking too much.

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

The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness.

I was lying in bed this morning and saying to myself, ‘the remarkable thing about Ethel is her stupendous self-satisfaction’ when in came your letter to confirm this profound psychological observation. How delighted I was!