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

Quote by Virginia Woolf

Topics: Virginia Woolf Quotes

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing:...

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing:...

If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over...

If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over...

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend...

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend...

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

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret...

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret...

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...

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming,...

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming,...

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the...

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the...

As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.

As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.

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...

I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.

I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.

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...

Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering...

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering...

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and...

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and...

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...

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to...

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to...