It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Quote by Virginia Woolf
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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
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Virginia Woolf Quotes
- Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
- Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
- 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.
- I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
- The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
- If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
- One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
- This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
- The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
- Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
Best Quotes
- One man's folly is another man's wife.
- I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.
- My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
- My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
- I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
- For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.
- Oh my gosh, I feel like I'm really obsessive about anything dealing with my health.
- Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one.
- The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.