Virginia Woolf

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#beautiful #because #complete #emotion #emotions

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#life

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#others #our #prisons #their #thoughts

Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#poetry #woman #woman

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#reassuring #true #true

Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#sad

Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#poetry #women #love

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#completeness #i #like #often #their

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#illusions #life #life

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

— Virginia Woolf

#star #stars