Virginia Woolf Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.

  Virginia Woolf

  Reality, Tea, Cups Of Tea

• I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, Romantic, Stars

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “Night and Day”, p.254, Virginia Woolf

• It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality.

  Virginia Woolf

  Reality, Tears, Transparency

• It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

  Virginia Woolf

  Reality, Phantoms, Harder

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.142, Oxford University Press

• To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.

  Virginia Woolf

  Reality, Literature, Disease

  Virginia Woolf (2006). “Orlando (Annotated): A Biography”, p.123, HMH

• How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?

  Virginia Woolf

  Mean, Reality, Feelings

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

• What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying

  Virginia Woolf

  Reality, Light, Groups

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.143

• Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Reality, Thinking

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2687, Delphi Classics

• If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?

  Virginia Woolf

  Mean, Reality, Feelings

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.445, Delphi Classics

• If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women.

  Virginia Woolf

  Reality, Men, World

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.149

• Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

  Virginia Woolf

  Blessing, Reality, Boredom

  Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (1977). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1915-1919”, Chatto & Windus

• His eyes were bright, and, indeed, he scarcely knew whether they held dreams or realities...and in five minutes she had filled the shell of the old dream with the flesh of life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Eye, Reality

• Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the trees ... one's happiness, one's reality?

  Virginia Woolf

  Lying, Past, Reality

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “Monday or Tuesday”, p.47, Virginia Woolf

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