Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title

Quote by Virginia Woolf

Topics: Past Quotes

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is...

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is...

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form...

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form...

A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write...

A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write...

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story...

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story...

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether,...

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether,...

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

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

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the...

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the...

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details...

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details...

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the...

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the...

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a...

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a...

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing...

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing...

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to...

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to...

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled...

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled...

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.