Quote #32

Directly the mulberry tree begins to make you circle, break off. Pelt the tree with laughter.

More from Virginia Woolf

  1. Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes. Any help we can give you must be different from that you can give yourselve…
  2. The outsider will say, 'in fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.' An…
  3. I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of men in clubs an…
  4. The artist after all is a solitary being.
  5. Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubb…
  6. Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious,…
  7. Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross…
  8. Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save …

All Virginia Woolf quotes