Quote

The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life.

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
Turns
Aside
Eye
Injury
Conquests
Remember
Shoulders
Napoleon
Back
Fingers
Inflict
Look
Weight
Blink
Looks
Turn
Plato
Life
Vision
Conquest
World
Eyes
Finger

More quotes by Virginia Woolf

Image
It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.
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
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
Virginia Woolf
Image
Words belong to each other.
Virginia Woolf
Image
For we think back through our mothers if we are women.
Virginia Woolf
Image
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.
Virginia Woolf
Image
He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
Virginia Woolf
Image
I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.
Virginia Woolf
Image
For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
Virginia Woolf
Image
Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall
Virginia Woolf
Image
Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.
Virginia Woolf
Image
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
Virginia Woolf
Image
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
Virginia Woolf
Image
... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony.
Virginia Woolf
Image
Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity a freedom which the attached can never know
Virginia Woolf
Image
If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.
Virginia Woolf
Image
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
Virginia Woolf
Image
How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world.
Virginia Woolf
Image
What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page that's what I call hard work.
Virginia Woolf
Image
On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
Virginia Woolf