Virginia Woolf Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

  Virginia Woolf

  Coffee, Sea, Knives

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.253, Collector's Library

• I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, People, Silence

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.194, Delphi Classics

• Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence

  Virginia Woolf

  Party, Giving, Silence

• The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features from faces. People might walk through me. And what is this moment of time, this particular day in which I have found myself caught? The growl of traffic might be any uproar - forest trees or the roar of wild beasts. Time has whizzed back an inch or two on its reel; our short progress has been cancelled. I think also that our bodies are in truth naked. We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Thinking, Two

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.691, Wordsworth Editions

• I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

  Virginia Woolf

  People, Silence, Sublime

• Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.

  Virginia Woolf

  Two, Silence, Chance

  Virginia Woolf (1992). “The voyage out”, p.82, Рипол Классик

• I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.

  Virginia Woolf

  Silence, Needs, Done

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1377, Delphi Classics

• For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat stone. "What is it to be in love?" she demanded, after a long silence; each word as it came into being seemed to shove itself out into an unknown sea. Hypnotized by the wings of the butterfly, and awed by the discovery of a terrible possibility in life, she sat for some time longer. When the butterfly flew away, she rose, and within, her two books beneath her arm returned again, much as a soldier prepares for battle.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Butterfly, Discovery

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.157, Delphi Classics

• One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.

  Virginia Woolf

  Silence, Silent

• One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Silence, Facts

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4298, Delphi Classics

• The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

  Virginia Woolf

  Witty, Silence, Ornaments

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