The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One Quotes

“I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One: 1915-1919

“and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage”
― Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One: 1915-1919

“...life allowed to waste like a tap left running.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One: 1915-1919

“The reason why it is easy to kill another person must be that one's imagination is too sluggish to conceive what his life means to him - the infinite possibilities of a succession of days which are furled in him, & have already been spent.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One: 1915-1919

“But it is always a question whether I wish to avoid these glooms. These weeks give one a plunge into deep waters. One goes down into the well & nothing protects one from the assault of truth.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One: 1915-1919

“At this moment, I feel as if the human race had no character at all – sought for nothing, believed in nothing, & fought only from a dreary sense of duty.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One: 1915-1919

“They are very large in effect, these painters; very little self-conscious; they have smooth broad spaces in their minds where I am all prickles & promontories.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One: 1915-1919

“If one didn’t feel that politics are an elaborate game got up to keep a pack of men trained for that sport in condition, one might be dismal; one sometimes is dismal; sometimes I try to worry out what some of the phrases we’re ruled by mean. I doubt whether most people even do that. Liberty, for instance.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One: 1915-1919

“I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the words”
― virginia woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One: 1915-1919