Virginia Woolf Quotes

Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go.

Weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.

I love playing strong feisty women, I really do, but if you were to ask my husband he'd probably say that I'm very insecure. And actually incredibly malleable, which isn't necessarily a good thing.

Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.

Some people take me as being a rowdy, honky-tonk hero type. Some people see me as a quiet person. I guess I can be either one, you know, at any moment.

Everybody's got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.

Life was good before I met the monster. After, life was great At least for a little while

The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.

Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.

At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.

In real life I'm bone dry and when I play I'm a mango and in sex I'm starving to be a dripping mango

The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.

You're everything I thought you never were and nothing like I thought you could've been.

at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.

I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold lands, and the sea streaming like a wet wash. I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.

Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true.

All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.