More Quotes by Virginia Woolf
Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.
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.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
I am rooted, but I flow.
But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.
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.
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.
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
