More Quotes by Virginia Woolf
Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.
Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
A light here required a shadow there.
The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.
One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.
Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.
