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Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

Birthname

AKA Virginia Woolf

Birthday January 25, 1882

Birthplace United Kingdom

Death March 28, 1941

Manner of Death Suicide, 13 June 2012 Iraq Attacks

Educated At King's College London

Nationality British, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland, United Kingdom

Occupations Essayist, Short Story Writer, Feminist, Autobiographer, Diarist

Spouse Leonard Sidney Woolf

Total quotes (162)

What matters is precisely this; the unspoken at the edge of the spoken.

— Virginia Woolf, via GoodReads

unspoken spoken Unsaid Things Unsaid Feelings Feelings Communication

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I want to write a novel about silence. The things people don’t say.

— Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

Silence Writing novel

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The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went.

— Virginia Woolf, Orlando

Sad Cycles of Love

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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

— Virginia Woolf, Street Haunting

Books Novels Secondhand library Oldness

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The truth is that I am not one of those who find their satisfaction in one person, or in infinity.

— Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.

— Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

Anxiety what anxiety feels like anxiety in literature Mind mindfulness Examples of Similes

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I am the seasons, I think sometimes, January, May, November; the mud, the mist, the dawn. I cannot be tossed about, or float gently, or mix with other people.

— Virginia Woolf, The Waves

Seasons changing as times change Feelings emotions Self & Identity special snowflake Sensitivity self awareness Self Construction

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I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.

— Virginia Woolf, Diary of Virginia Woolf Vol. 1

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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

— Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being

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She did not want to move, or to speak. She wanted to rest, to lean, to dream. She felt very tired.

— Virginia Woolf, The Years

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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.

— Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

Love inspiration Reality

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They were in love, happy, content; but why was it so painful being in love, why was there so much pain in happiness?

— Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

Love Happiness Contentment Pain hurt

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A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions or admires her understanding.

— Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography

Dating Respect Love

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How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

— Virginia Woolf, Selected Essays

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What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

— Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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Thinking is my fighting.

— Virginia Woolf, Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid

Thinking Mind Intelligence strength

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I feel insignificant, lost, but exultant.

— Virginia Woolf, Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Deep Feelings Ironic

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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.

— Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

Thinking of Someone Relationships Love

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But with you I am deeply passionately, unrequitedly in love.

— Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings (The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series)

Passionate Love One Sided Love Romantic Literature

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People are–nothing more.

— Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out: By Virginia Woolf - Illustrated

Society People We Me Meet

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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.

— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

Honesty Positive Trait Motivational Quote

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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

— Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

expressing feelings Feelings expression

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I wish you’d find the exit out of my head.

— Virginia Woolf, Letter to Vita Sackville-West,’ November 22, 1933

Hope Desire Thoughts Thinking Love

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

— Virginia Woolf, Selected Works Of Virginia Woolf

Friendship Friends

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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

— Virginia Woolf, A Haunted House: The Complete Shorter Fiction

Eyes Thoughts Metaphor Prison

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