You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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.

Language is wine upon the lips.

Language is wine upon the lips.

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.

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...

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

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...

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes...

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes...

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...

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.

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting...

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting...

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?

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....

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 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...

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

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

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a...

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a...

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions...

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions...

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,...

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...