Virginia Woolf

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

Virginia Woolf

I really don’t advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married.

Virginia Woolf

Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.

Virginia Woolf

Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.

Virginia Woolf

In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.

Virginia Woolf

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

Virginia Woolf

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

Virginia Woolf

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

Virginia Woolf

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Virginia Woolf

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf