1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

Soup is cuisines kindest course.

I feel certain that I’m going mad again, I feel we can’t go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan’t recover this time. I begin to hear voices.

I find that when I’ve seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box – the part one strikes on, I mean.

There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where’s one?

Never pretend that the things you haven’t got are not worth having.

Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth. Roll up that tender air and the plant dies, the colour fades. The earth we walk on is a parched cinder. It is marl we tread and fiery cobbles scorch our feet. By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. ‘Tis waking that kills us.

I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it’s ripe; it will be exquisite by September.

My spine is soft like wax near the flame of the candle. I dream; I dream.

There was an emptiness about the heart of life; an attic room.