There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune fr…

Virginia Woolf
593 citations
There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2007). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p.322, Wordsworth Editions
Sadness
13

More Author Quotes

I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.
Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth. ✨ Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). Orlando: A Biography, p.119, Oxford University Press, USA
It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we m … ▶
There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2016). The Waves, p.46, Virginia Woolf
madam, the man cried, leaping to the ground, you're hurt! I'm dead, sir! she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2014). Orlando, p.162, OUP Oxford

There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2007). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p.322, Wordsworth Editions

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes