Virginia Woolf

The only way to deal with life is to make it into a work of art.

I am not a woman, I am a writer.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.

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

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others, and that is indeed maturation.

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

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

To love makes one solitary.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

The only advice... is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

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.

To put down everything that you are thinking and feeling all the time would fill several volumes a day.

The truth is that writing an autobiography, like trying to catch raindrops, is futile.

I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say 'This is new, this is different, this like that, this is it!'

Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.