Virginia Woolf Quotes about Happiness

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But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

Virginia Woolf

Happiness, Past, Thinking

My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.

Virginia Woolf

Happiness, Mind, Way

Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.

Virginia Woolf

Happiness, Littles, Strings

Virginia Woolf (1980). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930”, Chatto & Windus

To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

Virginia Woolf

Happiness, Men, World

Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.44, Virginia Woolf

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Virginia Woolf

Happiness, Beauty, Laughter

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.573, Wordsworth Editions

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Virginia Woolf

Life, Happiness, Independent

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2280, Delphi Classics

She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.

Virginia Woolf

Happiness, Taxi Cabs, Sea

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.132, Wordsworth Editions