Virginia Woolf Quotes

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Virginia Woolf Quote: “I am rooted, but I flow.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “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 Quote: “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Arrange whatever pieces come your way.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “A light here required a shadow there.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Thinking is my fighting.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”

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

Virginia Woolf Quote: “I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “The way to write well is to live intensely.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Language is wine upon the lips.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “It’s my choice, to choose how to live my life.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “I’m terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One’s Mind about Another Person.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “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 Quote: “I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Fear no more, says the heart...”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “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 Quote: “Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes. Any help we can give you must be different from that you can give yourselves, and perhaps the value of that help may lie in the fact of that difference.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “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 Quote: “I like to have space to spread my mind out in.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one’s words.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it’s place?”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Outside the trees dragged their leaves like nets through the depths of the air; the sound of water was in the room and through the waves came the voices of birds singing.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “I will not be “famous,” “great.” I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one’s self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “To be nothing – is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up in my mind and so making a perpetual pageant, which is to be my happiness.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “What a lark! What a plunge!”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “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 Quote: “How remorseless life is!”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “The immense success of our life is, I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that nothing can touch it.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Lord, how tired one gets of one’s own writing.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “I will go down with my colors flying.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “The mind is the most capricious of insects – flitting, fluttering.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.”

Virginia Woolf Quote: “They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought.”

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