We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

Quote by Virginia Woolf

Topics: Virginia Woolf Quotes

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...

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other...

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other...

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact...

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact...

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...

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.

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...

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

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...

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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,...

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to...

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to...

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien...

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien...

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the...

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the...