Virginia Woolf Quotes — Page 28

Novelist

Creative

“Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.”

Thinking Years Voice

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Virginia Woolf

Novelist

Adventurous

“She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking some past stage on this adventurous, long, long voyage, this interminable --- this interminable life.”

Long Past White

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Inspired

“Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.”

Problem Fiction

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Philosophical

“Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”

Writing Voice

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Lonely

“She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.”

Happiness Sea Taxi Cabs

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Philosophical

“It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.”

Language Greek Useless

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Nostalgic

“He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.”

Dream Memories

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Spiritual

“and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage”

Mean Party

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Lonely

“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone.”

Thinking Needs Solitude

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Love

“for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge”

Men Unity Tablets

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Grieving

“I feel that I have had a blow; but it is not, as I thought as a child, simply a blow from an enemy hidden behind the cotton wool of daily life; it is or will become a revelation of some order; it is a token of some real thing behind appearances; and I make it real by putting it into words. It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole; this wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me; it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put the severed parts together.”

Children Pain Hurt

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Philosophical

“The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth.”

War Fighting Clouds

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