It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. Virginia Woolf
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. Virginia Woolf
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. Virginia Woolf
If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully? Virginia Woolf
We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods. Virginia Woolf
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father. Virginia Woolf
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. 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. Virginia Woolf
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? Virginia Woolf
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. Virginia Woolf
I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose. Virginia Woolf
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. Virginia Woolf
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers. Virginia Woolf
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. Virginia Woolf
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. Virginia Woolf
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. Virginia Woolf