Virginia Woolf nejznámější citáty
Virginia Woolf: Citáty o životě
„Život je těžký, člověk potřebuje hroší kůži - a tu nemá“
kniha Politics and Aesthetics in The Diary of Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf: Citáty o ženách
Virginia Woolf citáty a výroky
„… bohatství je, pokud jsme klidní v srdci chaosu.“
Zdroj: [Exley, Helen, Pro klid v duši 365 : Citáty na každý den, Zuzana Pavlová, Slovart, Praha, 2018, 368, 978-80-7529-518-7, 274]
„Kolikrát lidé použili pero nebo štětec, protože nedokázali zmáčknout spoušť?“
Zdroj: https://www.instagram.com/p/Crv5OqJt8k7/?hl=cs
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https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/799410-how-many-times-have-people-used-a-pen-or-paintbrush
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https://www.reddit.com/r/QuotesPorn/comments/1auniy1/how_many_times_have_people_used_a_pen_or_a/?rdt=40689
Virginia Woolf: Citáty anglicky
“Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”
Virginia Woolf kniha Orlando: A Biography
Zdroj: Orlando
“Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.”
Virginia Woolf kniha To the Lighthouse
Zdroj: To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf kniha To the Lighthouse
Zdroj: To the Lighthouse
“… she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.”
Virginia Woolf kniha Paní Dallowayová
Zdroj: Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf kniha A Room of One's Own
Zdroj: A Room of One's Own
“For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.”
Zdroj: A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
“I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.”
Virginia Woolf kniha The Waves
Zdroj: The Waves
“It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.”
Virginia Woolf kniha Paní Dallowayová
Zdroj: Mrs. Dalloway
“The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.”
Virginia Woolf kniha Paní Dallowayová
Zdroj: Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf kniha Orlando: A Biography
Zdroj: Orlando: A Biography (1928), Ch. 2
“When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.”
Virginia Woolf kniha Jacob's Room
Zdroj: Jacob's Room
Virginia Woolf kniha Orlando: A Biography
Zdroj: Orlando: A Biography (1928), Ch. 3
Kontext: 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?
Virginia Woolf kniha Paní Dallowayová
Mrs Dalloway (1925)
Zdroj: Mrs. Dalloway
Kontext: But to go deeper, beneath what people said (and these judgements, how superficial, how fragmentary they are!) in her own mind now, what did it mean to her, this thing she called life? Oh, it was very queer. Here was So-and-so in South Kensington; some one up in Bayswater; and somebody else, say, in Mayfair. And she felt quiet continuously a sense of their existence and she felt what a waste; and she felt what a pity; and she felt if only they could be brought together; so she did it. And it was an offering; to combine, to create; but to whom?
An offering for the sake of offering, perhaps. Anyhow, it was her gift. Nothing else had she of the slightest importance; could not think, write, even play the piano. She muddled Armenians and Turks; loved success; hated discomfort; must be liked; talked oceans of nonsense: and to this day, ask her what the Equator was, and she did not know.
All the same, that one day should follow another; Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; that one should wake up in the morning; see the sky; walk in the park; meet Hugh Whitbread; then suddenly in came Peter; then these roses; it was enough. After that, how unbelievable death was! — that it must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.
“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”
Virginia Woolf kniha Paní Dallowayová
Mrs Dalloway (1925)
Zdroj: Mrs. Dalloway
“I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.”
Virginia Woolf kniha Jacob's Room
Zdroj: Jacob's Room
“Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.”
Virginia Woolf kniha Orlando: A Biography
Zdroj: Orlando
“Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.”
Zdroj: The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Two: 1920-1924
Virginia Woolf kniha A Room of One's Own
Zdroj: A Room of One's Own
“Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.”
Virginia Woolf kniha Paní Dallowayová
Zdroj: Mrs. Dalloway
