Virginia Woolf: Trending quotes (page 10)

“I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.”

“Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.”

“But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.”

“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.”

“If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?”

“Well, we must wait for the future to show.”

“Why must they grow up and lose it all?”

“I am not one and simple, but complex and many.”

“The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness”

“Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.”

“So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball”

“Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.”

“Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.”

“If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?”

“But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.”

“At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the imaginary world to the real world.”

“A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one”

“Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once.”

“… But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful…”