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
love interesting people
Oh and I thought, as i was dressing, how interesting it would be to describe the approach of age, and the gradual coming of death. As people describe love. To note every symptom of failure: but why failure? To treat age as an experience that is different from the others; and to detect every one of the gradual stages towards death which is a tremendous experience, an not as unconscious, at least in its approaches, as death is.
beauty loveliness
loveliness is infernally sad.
ghost-stories feelings our-love
How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?
love men people
What could be more serious than the love of man for woman, what more commanding, more impressive, bearing in its bosom the seeds of death; at the same time these lovers, these people entering into illusion glittering eyed, must be danced round with mockery, decorated with garlands.
lovely world goodness
How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world.
sports love-is achievement
We seem to be riding on the top of the highest mast of the tallest ship; and yet at the same time we know that nothing of this sort matters; love is not proved thus, nor great achievements completed thus; so that we sport with the moment and preen our feathers in it lightly.
love hands opposites
For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together
love thinking fiction
I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.
wish lovers poet
And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.
love shapes thousand
Love had a thousand shapes.
dog lying i-love-him
We are about to part," said Neville. "Here are the boxes; here are the cabs. There is Percival in his billycock hat. He will forget me. He will leave my letters lying about among guns and dogs unaswered. I shall send him poems and he will perhaps reply with a picture post card. But it is for that that I love him. I shall propose a meeting - under a clock, by some Cross; and shall wait and he will not come. It is for that that I love him.
love women poet
Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.
being-in-love people strange
But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
confidence love-yourself eye
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.