Virginia Woolf

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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.

[Virginia Woolf @woolfquotes]

Life is a dream. 'Tis waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

[Virginia Woolf @woolfquotes]

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 @woolfquotes]

Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.

[Virginia Woolf @woolfquotes]

I leap like one of those flames that run between the cracks of the earth; I move, I dance; I never cease to move and to dance.

[Virginia Woolf @woolfquotes]

No one feels — no one does anything but hurt.

[Virginia Woolf @woolfquotes]

I grow numb; I grow stiff. How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart?

[Virginia Woolf @woolfquotes]

Do not move, do not go. Sink within this moment. Hold it for ever.

[Virginia Woolf @woolfquotes]

Who is that lady who appears to come into a room as if the whole world belonged to her?

[Virginia Woolf @woolfquotes]

Thinking was torment; why not give up thinking, and drift and dream?

[Virginia Woolf @woolfquotes]

Now, therefore, she could write, and write she did. She wrote. She wrote. She wrote.

[Virginia Woolf @woolfquotes]

Words are dangerous things, let us remember. A republic might be brought into being by a poem.

[Virginia Woolf @woolfquotes]

You’re infinitely simpler than I am. That’s the difficulty.

[Virginia Woolf @woolfquotes]

I’ve lived almost entirely among delusions, and now I’m at the awkward stage of finding it out. I want another delusion to go on with.

[Virginia Woolf @woolfquotes]

There was a star riding through clouds one night, and I said to the star, 'Consume me.'

[Virginia Woolf @woolfquotes]

I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard, waiting for some one to wear them.

[Virginia Woolf @woolfquotes]

You represent to me the only reality in the world.

[Virginia Woolf @woolfquotes]

Be truthful, one would say, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.

[Virginia Woolf @woolfquotes]

I am never stagnant; I rise from my worst disasters, I turn, I change.

[Virginia Woolf @woolfquotes]

I would go with you through the fires of death. Yet am happiest alone.

[Virginia Woolf @woolfquotes]

I get an infinity of pleasure from the intensity of my own emotions.