I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.

Quote by Virginia Woolf

Topics: Virginia Woolf Quotes

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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

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

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats -...

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats -...

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune...

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune...

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship...

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship...

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

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

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...

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the...

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the...

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his...

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his...

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one...

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one...

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are...

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are...

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to...

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to...

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the...

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the...

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...

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts...

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts...

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should...

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should...