1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

Kokia gyvenimo prasmė? Tai ir viskas - paprastas klausimas, slenkant metams žmogų vis labiau apninkantis. Didysis apreiškimas taip ir neatėjo. Didysis apreiškimas, matyt, apskritai niekada neateina. Esama tik kasdieninių stebuklėlių, nušvitimų, tamsoje netikėtai įžiebiamų degtukų, kaip štai dabar.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends of the right sort.

To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?

jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind ...

I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.

I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind's passage through the world, achieve in the end some kind of whole made of shivering fragments.

for women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places;

We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable.

In each of us two powers preside, one male, one female: and in the man's brain, the man predominates over the woman, and in the woman's brain, the woman predominates over the man...If one is a man, still the woman part of the brain must have effect; and a woman also must have intercourse with the man in her. Coleridge perhaps meant this when he said that a great mind is androgynous. It is when this fusion takes place that the mind is fully fertilized and uses all its faculties.