Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Quote by Virginia Woolf

Topics: Virginia Woolf Quotes

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations,...

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations,...

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

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

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

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be...

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be...

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,...

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most...

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most...

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy...

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy...

Language is wine upon the lips

Language is wine upon the lips

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...

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine...

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine...

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...

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people...

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people...

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

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...

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....

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

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

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

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

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

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I...

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I...

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it...

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it...