Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf, known professionally as Virginia Woolf, was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 January 1882
CityLondon, England
distance peaceful littles
All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away, unreal. Already the little distance they had sailed had put them far from it and given it the changed look, the composed look, of something receding in which one has no longer any part.
luck world may
Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.
flower tree darkness
Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
girl men lilies
So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball
flames literature world
The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.
dream silly unhappy
It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
stars book hero
Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and gazes at his wife and son, who, very distant at first, gradually come closer and closer, till lips and book and head are clearly before him, though still lovely and unfamiliar from the intensity of his isolation and the waste of ages and the perishing of the stars, and finally putting his pipe in his pocket and bending his magnificent head before her—who will blame him if he does homage to the beauty of the world?
spring done toss
The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on fields wide-eyed and watchful and entirely careless of what was done or thought by the beholders.
shadow life-is embrace
In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows.
art order fiction
Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?
men air voice
In the 18th century we knew how everything was done, but here I rise through the air, I listen to voices in America, I see men flying- but how is it done? I can't even begin to wonder. So my belief in magic returns.
brain phrases mercy
travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains ...
fishing differences race
the profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not ...
honesty fishing morality
fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.