Virginia Woolf Quotes About Passion

Quotes about: Passion

• Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

  Virginia Woolf

  Passion, Yield, Civilization

  Virginia Woolf (1990). “A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909”, Vintage

• My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

  Virginia Woolf

  Passion, Reflection, Brain

  Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicolson, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1979). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935”, Harvest Books

• The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence -- the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.

  Virginia Woolf

  Strong, Passion, Light

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.79, Broadview Press

• The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?

  Virginia Woolf

  Passion, Maps, London

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.70, Wordsworth Editions

• No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.

  Virginia Woolf

  Believe, Passion, Cutting

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

  Virginia Woolf

  Passion, Yield, Rooms

  Virginia Woolf (1990). “A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909”, Vintage

• A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish between his fingers. A reader, on the other hand, must check the desire for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good, but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist or an authority, is very apt to kill what suits us to consider the more humane passion for pure and disinterested reading.

  Virginia Woolf

  Reading, Book, Passion

  Virginia Woolf, Andrew McNeillie (1986). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918”, Harcourt

• To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone.

  Virginia Woolf

  Passion, Games, Feeling Alone

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.43, Collector's Library

• Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.

  Virginia Woolf

  Jealousy, Passion, Mankind

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.179, Wordsworth Editions

• There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.

  Virginia Woolf

  Passion, Writing, Gone

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The letters of Virginia Woolf”

• No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes

  Virginia Woolf

  Believe, Passion, Men

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high. Whigs and Tories, Liberal party and Labour party - for what do they battle except their own prestige? It is not love of truth but desire to prevail that sets quarter against quarter and makes subserviency rather than the triumph of truth and the exaltation of virtue - but these moralities belong, and should be left to the historian, since they are as dull as ditch water.

  Virginia Woolf

  Party, Believe, Passion

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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