More Quotes by Virginia Woolf
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
I am rooted, but I flow.
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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.
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.
A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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.
I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
