“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
History
“The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”
BeautyAll Quotes by Virginia Woolf
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
Truth“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
Love“This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.”
Courage“Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.”
Truth“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
Power“I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.”
God“It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.”
Age“Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.”
Business“Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.”
Experience“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
Time“Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
Dreams“The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.”
Truth“The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.”
Happiness“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”
Alone“We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.”
Best“When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.”
Amazing“Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.”
Friendship“If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?”
Education“The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.”
Romantic