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Top 500 Virginia Woolf Quotes (2025 Update)
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Virginia Woolf Quote: “It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Yes yes yes I do like you. I am afraid to write the stronger word.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Cats do not go to heaven. Women cannot write the plays of Shakespeare.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “You wish to be a poet; you wish to be a lover. But the splendid clarity of your intelligence, and the remorseless honestly of your intellect bring you to a halt.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “I grow numb; I grow stiff. How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart?”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare’s sonnets!”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “If the best of one’s feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “I am someone who thinks and feels much more than is reasonable. And that is all.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “I like your energy. I love your legs. I long to see you.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “I think sometimes I am not a woman, but the light that falls on this gate, on this ground. I am the seasons, I think sometimes, January, May, November; the mud, the mist, the dawn.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “In her eyes shone the sweetness of melancholy.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it’s ripe; it will be exquisite by September.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “I’m sick to death of this particular self. I want another.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “But what after all, is one night? A short space, especially when the darkness dims so soon, and so soon a bird sings, or a faint green quickens, like a turning leaf, in the hollow of the waves. Night, however, succeeds to night. The winter holds a pack of them in store and deals them equally, evenly, with indefatigable fingers. They lengthen; they darken. Some of them hold aloft clear planets, plates of brightness.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “That a famous library has been cursed by a woman is a matter of complete indifference to a famous library.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “For if Chloe likes Olivia and Mary Carmichael knows how to express it she will light a torch in that vast chamber where nobody has yet been.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Conversation, fastidious goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Whenever you see a board up with “Trespassers will be prosecuted,” trespass at once.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same unreality, which was so startling; felt something emerge. Life was most vivid then.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer?”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Gold runs in our blood.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine...”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Or is anger, I wondered, somehow, the familiar, the attendant sprite of power?”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence.’ That will be useful.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “If it were now to die, ’twere now to be most happy.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “What a morning – fresh as if issued to children on a beach.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “I’m fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It’s an odd feeling though, writing aginst the current: difficult entirely to disregard the current. Yet of course I shall.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “She did in her own heart infinitely prefer boobies to clever men who wrote dissertations.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began?”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “The sound of Big Ben striking the half-hour struck out between them with extraordinary vigour, as if a young man, strong, indifferent, inconsiderate, were swinging dumb-bells this way and that.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty – it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life – froze it.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan’t recover this time. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I have fought against it but cannot fight any longer.”
Virginia Woolf Quote: “The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.”
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