How can I express the darkness? Virginia Woolf More Quotes by Virginia Woolf More Quotes From Virginia Woolf If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. Virginia Woolf honesty inspirational lying My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness. Virginia Woolf scrap madness brain How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger? Virginia Woolf used life people Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. Virginia Woolf numbness soul people I am rooted, but I flow. Virginia Woolf inspirational-life flow healing I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time. Virginia Woolf reading sound book For nothing was simply one thing. Virginia Woolf lighthouse one-thing Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. Virginia Woolf women power motivational Thinking is my fighting. Virginia Woolf fighting healing thinking But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful. Virginia Woolf broken beautiful Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room. Virginia Woolf yield passion rooms It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. Virginia Woolf womanly women simple I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world. Virginia Woolf silence done needs While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace. Virginia Woolf humility dark men He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life. Virginia Woolf our-dreams our-lives dream Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. Virginia Woolf women speech travel What does the brain matter compared with the heart? Virginia Woolf doe brain heart The way to write well is to live intensely. Virginia Woolf wells writing way Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement. Virginia Woolf confinement incessant solitary To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries. Virginia Woolf library sanctuary spirit
