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
life meaningful peace
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
memories giving solitude
In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
wine giving water
A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.
witty jobs book
I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
peace war clothes
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
strong-women adversity people
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
women writing secret
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?
time believe optimistic
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
romantic cutting romance
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
world mrs-dalloway ends
After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.
way stills still-life
Still, life had a way of adding day to day
phrases wander higher
I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.
fall doors feet
Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.
heart mrs-dalloway
Fear no more, says the heart...