More Quotes by Virginia Woolf
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married
