Virginia Woolf Quotes About Passion

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  • There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.

    Writing  
    Virginia Woolf (1975). “The letters of Virginia Woolf”
  • No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes

    Believe  
    Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence -- the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.

    Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.79, Broadview Press
  • Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.

    Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.179, Wordsworth Editions
  • Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

    Virginia Woolf (1990). “A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909”, Vintage
  • Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

    Virginia Woolf (1990). “A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909”, Vintage
  • The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?

    Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.70, Wordsworth Editions
  • 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? It is not love of truth but desire to prevail that sets quarter against quarter and makes subserviency rather than the triumph of truth and the exaltation of virtue - but these moralities belong, and should be left to the historian, since they are as dull as ditch water.

    Believe  
    Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone.

    Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.43, Collector's Library
  • My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

    Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicolson, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1979). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935”, Harvest Books
  • A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish between his fingers. A reader, on the other hand, must check the desire for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good, but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist or an authority, is very apt to kill what suits us to consider the more humane passion for pure and disinterested reading.

    Virginia Woolf, Andrew McNeillie (1986). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918”, Harcourt
  • No passion is stronger in the breast of a 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.

    Believe  
    Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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