Quotes by Virginia Woolf

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

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

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

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

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

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

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