Virginia Woolf

Once she knows how to read there’s only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

Virginia Woolf

Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.

Virginia Woolf

Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Virginia Woolf

Romantic love is only an illusion. A story one makes up in one’s mind about another person.

Virginia Woolf

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Virginia Woolf

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

Virginia Woolf

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Virginia Woolf

Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

Virginia Woolf

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

Virginia Woolf

The depths of the sea are only water after all.

Virginia Woolf