More Quotes by Virginia Woolf
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.
I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.
A light here required a shadow there.
How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.
We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
