Top 6 Emma Woolf Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The notion that life could be any different – that it could be better – becomes inconceivable. You forget how good it was to be normal. Worst of all, you come to believe that you prefer it this way.”

— Emma Woolf

2. “In fact, I think the cleverest people must be pessimistic, depressed, because they are realistic, and they see how the world really is.”

— Emma Woolf

3. “Basically, when it comes to women, both aging and eating are somehow shameful.”

— Emma Woolf

4. “A suicide is tragic because nothing interrupted it.”

— Emma Woolf

5. “I wondered, Why would you run with someone else? Why would you choose to share this intense, solitary activity, mile after mile, in sunshine and rain, alone with your thoughts, every step making you leaner, firmer, every mile taking you farther from the lazy, lethargic world? Like writing and eating, I couldn’t stand to share my running. It was such a personal thing: a therapeutic punishment, a way to push, push, push myself.”

— Emma Woolf

6. “Are we really going to spend our whole lives like this, feeling the wrong shape and the wrong weight in the wrong skin?”

— Emma Woolf

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