Quotes - Shaimaa (Sohag, 22, Egypt) Showing 1-30 of 87

#1

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: women

21183 likes

#2

“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: women

3046 likes

#3

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

tags: life, peace

10243 likes

#4

“Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: men, rescuing, women

4574 likes

#5

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: freedom, women, writing

12722 likes

#6

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: writing

3051 likes

#7

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: food, love

4398 likes

#8

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: life

2660 likes

#9

“When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: book-lovers, bookworms, heavenly-rewards, judgment, reading

973 likes

#10

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

2317 likes

#11

“The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: women

993 likes

#12

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

tags: books, metaphor, soul

5678 likes

#13

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: honesty, lies, stories, truth

4163 likes

#14

“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.”
― Virginia Woolf

3198 likes

#15

“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: sadness

1658 likes

#16

“I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.”
― Virginia Woolf

843 likes

#17

“For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: writing

708 likes

#18

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas

tags: calming, reassuring, true

2318 likes

#19

“I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.”
― Virginia Woolf

1201 likes

#20

“Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: love, poetry, women

1379 likes

#21

“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: obsession

1308 likes

#22

“I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. ”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: age

556 likes

#23

“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.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

914 likes

#24

“I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer? ”
― Virginia Woolf

448 likes

#25

“I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: optimism

644 likes

#26

“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.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: arrogance, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, inequality, men, self-importance, women

1831 likes

#27

“Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.”
― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

tags: inner-nature, wild-horse

519 likes

#28

“There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: clouds, star

2024 likes

#29

“Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.”
― Virginia Woolf

427 likes

#30

“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: growing-up, illusions, life

2061 likes

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