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Top 500 Virginia Woolf Quotes (2024 Update)
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Virginia Woolf Quote: “For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “To survive, each sentence must have, at its heart, a little spark of fire, and this, whatever the risk, the novelist must pluck with his own hands from the blaze.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “I” is only a convenient term for somebody who has no real being.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that’s a chair, that’s a table, and yet at the same time, It’s a miracle, it’s an ecstasy.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “All extremes are dangerous. It is best to keep in the middle of the road, in the common ruts, however muddy.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “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 Quote: “They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the imaginary world to the real world.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “To love makes one solitary.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “I have had my vision.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Tragedies come in the hungry hours.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Big Ben was beginning to strike, first the warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned – in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and ever grains of energy, atoms of light.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Facts are all that they can offer us, and facts are a very inferior form of fiction.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Would there be trees if we didn’t see them?”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “As a woman, I have no country.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “This morning I am wonderfully peaceful. Just like a storm that has spent itself.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “It might be possible, Septimus thought, looking at England from the train window as they left Newhaven, it might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Our friends – how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often not. Life is a dream surely.”
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