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

Quote by Virginia Woolf

Topics: Virginia Woolf Quotes

A woman must have money and a room of her own.

A woman must have money and a room of her own.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

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.

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...

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...

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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.

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.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to...

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to...

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...

Language is wine upon the lips

Language is wine upon the lips

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole...

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove...

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove...