Virginia Woolf

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#disatisfaction #life #life

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#art

So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#marriage

Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#life #faith

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#life #more #order #rest #should

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#drama #green #literature #nature #poetry

But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#nature #russia #nature

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

#change

One must love everything. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#love #love

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#isolation #loneliness #personality #solitude #love