More Quotes by Virginia Woolf
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
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.
