So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same unreality, which was so startling; felt something emerge. Life was most vivid then. Virginia Woolf More Quotes by Virginia Woolf More Quotes From Virginia Woolf To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination. Virginia Woolf perceptionimaginationart Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life, can be full of dreams; and the most common actions──a walk, a talk, solitude in one’s own orchard──can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind. Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger’s-breadth from goodness. Virginia Woolf winedreamsleep The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. Virginia Woolf confidencelove-yourselfeye Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us. Virginia Woolf clothesfashionviews My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way. Virginia Woolf mindhappinessway Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play. Virginia Woolf supportsoulplay When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they? Virginia Woolf affairstarsmatter Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. Virginia Woolf soulsecretwriting Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Virginia Woolf healingbookhands Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody. Virginia Woolf leaderselfanimal The depths of the sea are only water after all. Virginia Woolf depthseawater As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking. Virginia Woolf menlongthinking For pleasure has no relish unless we share it. Virginia Woolf relishpleasureshare A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. Virginia Woolf veilsageinsanity I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarreling and reconciliation I need privacy--to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits. Virginia Woolf catwaitingorder Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles. Virginia Woolf daughtermotherbaby Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title. Virginia Woolf womenfriendshipbook Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught. Virginia Woolf draughtfatiguesleep It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels. Virginia Woolf mrs-dallowaypitythousand I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls. Virginia Woolf unhappysoulpeople
