Quote

Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.

Virginia Woolf

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Virginia Woolf
Age: 59 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 25
Died: 1941
Died: March 28
Author
Autobiographer
Diarist
Essayist
Feminist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Publisher
Short Story Writer
Writer
London
England
Virxhinia Ulf
Virginia yo juanito Adeline Woolf
Virg̔inyah Vold
Virdžiniâ Vulf
Virdzhiniia Vulf
Virzhinia Ulf
Virginia Stephen
Virzhin︠iia Ulf
Adeline Virginia Stephen
Virginyah Volf
Adeline Virginia Woolf
Virginia Adeline Woolf
Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf
Birtzinia Gulph
Virginia Stephen Woolf
Woolf
Virginia
1882-1941
Like
Turns
Plain
Story
Pretend
Next
Logical
Stories
Manner
Orderly
Matter
Substance
Globe
Make
Instance
Globes
Love
Fingers
Shaped
Life
Turn
Solid

More quotes by Virginia Woolf

Image
The world has raised its whip where will it descend?
Virginia Woolf
Image
Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf
Image
It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.
Virginia Woolf
Image
Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?
Virginia Woolf
Image
In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.
Virginia Woolf
Image
People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.
Virginia Woolf
Image
One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.
Virginia Woolf
Image
I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.
Virginia Woolf
Image
I see through most people I'm hardly ever wrong. I see at once what they've got in them.
Virginia Woolf
Image
I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
Virginia Woolf
Image
For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think well not even to think. To be silent to be alone.
Virginia Woolf
Image
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
Virginia Woolf
Image
... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.
Virginia Woolf
Image
I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.
Virginia Woolf
Image
It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality.
Virginia Woolf
Image
Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure
Virginia Woolf
Image
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.
Virginia Woolf
Image
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
Virginia Woolf
Image
But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality has no such simple effect upon the mind of man.
Virginia Woolf
Image
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
Virginia Woolf