Virginia Woolf's Most Yogic Quotes

Born on this day, January 25th in 1882, Adeline Virginia Stephen became one of the foremost and most beloved voices to embody the roar of the woman: Virginia Woolf.

Her cries, steeped in a history of sexual abuse and a series of deaths of her own beloveds, have rippled throughout the ages, never silenced by her tragic ending -- drowning from the weight of the affluent pockets that put her in that wondrous place of privileged and oppressed.

We celebrate her, her feminism, and her literary genius on what would have been her 136th birthday with these most yogic of her quotes.

They say there are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

Virginia Woolf, you are still alive. pic.twitter.com/tKPDX2FsXq

— H e t e r o t o p ia (@ArtsOfExistence) January 24, 2018

Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the flight of a word? It is a balloon that sails over tree-tops. To speak of knowledge is futile. All is experiment and adventure. We are forever mixing ourselves with unknown quantities

Virginia Woolf, Aquarius

— Astro Poets (@poetastrologers) January 25, 2018

'Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.'
- Virginia Woolf, born #OnThisDay in 1882#ThursdayThoughts pic.twitter.com/UBAhXTXSh9

— Waterstones (@Waterstones) January 25, 2018

"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself." — Virginia Woolf #bornonthisday pic.twitter.com/VfVF9d30sh

— Tribeca (@Tribeca) January 25, 2018

She smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams..
— Virginia Woolf
To the lighthouse

© Elena Oganesyan pic.twitter.com/toL6fAJuAg

— LDB (@LdMyPath) January 16, 2018

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”

― Virginia Woolf#VirginiaWoolf

— Pooja Sangwan 😘 (@PoojaSangwan15) January 24, 2018

You cannot find peace by avoiding life. - Virginia Woolf #quotes

— Great Minds Quotes (@GreatestQuotes) January 25, 2018

Happy 136th birthday Virginia Woolf
We'd prefer that these words weren't still true today#TimesUp on silencing women voices. pic.twitter.com/YdbHuwLfzS

— Women's March London (@womensmarchlon) January 25, 2018

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf (born this day, January 25, 1882) pic.twitter.com/xSsCoOJv0E

— MacCocktail (@MacCocktail) January 25, 2018

I am made and remade continually,
Different people draw different word from me mercilessly.
—Virginia Woolf

— Nidhi Singh (@NidhiSuryavansi) January 25, 2018

Photo by Laura Miller

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