Quotes by Virginia Woolf
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.