Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
Virginia Woolf

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
Virginia Woolf

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

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
Virginia Woolf

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
Virginia Woolf

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Virginia Woolf

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.
Virginia Woolf

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Virginia Woolf

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
Virginia Woolf

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
Virginia Woolf

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Virginia Woolf

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
Virginia Woolf

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
Virginia Woolf

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
Virginia Woolf

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
Virginia Woolf

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Virginia Woolf

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia Woolf

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
Virginia Woolf

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