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Top 500 Virginia Woolf Quotes (2025 Update)
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Virginia Woolf Quote: “Meanwhile, let us abolish the ticking of time’s clock with one blow. Come closer.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “No, I’m not clever. I’ve always cared more for people than for ideas.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Children never forget injustice. They forgive heaps of things grown-up people mind; but that sin is the unpardonable sin.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “There was a day when I liked writing letters – it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Use words that soak up life.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “There is no mark on the wall to measure the precise height of women. There are no yard measures neatly divided into the fractions of an inch that one can lay against the qualities of a good mother or the devotion of a daughter or fidelity of a sister or the capacity of a housekeeper.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “I belong to quick, futile moments of intense feeling. Yes, I belong to moments. Not to people.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “I want to write a novel about silence. The things people don’t say.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Soup is cuisines kindest course.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “I am never stagnant; I rise from my worst disasters, I turn, I change.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “For we think back through our mothers if we are women.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Well, we must wait for the future to show.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Once she knows how to read there’s only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Nothing, I know, had any chance against death.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole. This wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me; it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put the severed parts together.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour’s discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial-and any question about sex is that-one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “I am not one and simple, but complex and many.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “You can’t think how I depend on you, and when you’re not there the colour goes out of my life.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “I am extremely happy walking on the downs... I like to have space to spread my mind out in.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality has no such simple effect upon the mind of man.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Why must they grow up and lose it all?”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “I’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.”
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