Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. Virginia Woolf friendpeoplepoetry Change image and share on social
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 birthbodycommon share on social
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. Virginia Woolf awareborehappiness Change image and share on social
A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out. Virginia Woolf curtaindrawessay Change image and share on social
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. Virginia Woolf batterlikemisfortune Change image and share on social
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write. Virginia Woolf moodqueerthink Change image and share on social
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. Virginia Woolf assumebookcritic Change image and share on social
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. Virginia Woolf bodyessencemind Change image and share on social
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print. Virginia Woolf decomposeeternitynauseate Change image and share on social
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. Virginia Woolf anonymoushistorywoman Change image and share on social