Virginia Woolf Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• 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

  Beauty, Beautiful, Time

  Virginia Woolf (1980). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930”, Chatto & Windus

• Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Writing, Attachment

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Funny, Art, Pain

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.756, Wordsworth Editions

• History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.

  Virginia Woolf

  War, Men, History

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.630, Wordsworth Editions

• The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Philosophy, Writing

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.21, Oxford University Press

• What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

  Virginia Woolf

  Taken, Humor, History

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