People Quotes by Virginia Woolf

“People are—nothing more.”

— Virginia Woolf

It is no use trying to sum people up.

— Virginia Woolf

“The people we are most fond of are not good for us when we are ill.”

— Virginia Woolf

There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.

— Virginia Woolf

I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.

— Virginia Woolf

I see through most people; I'm hardly ever wrong. I see at once what they've got in them.

— Virginia Woolf

People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.

— Virginia Woolf

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

— Virginia Woolf

No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.

— Virginia Woolf

“I like it when people actually come, but I love it when they go.”

— Virginia Woolf

When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre

— Virginia Woolf

It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.

— Virginia Woolf

I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part…

— Virginia Woolf

In marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the…

— Virginia Woolf

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

— Virginia Woolf

Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone,…

— Virginia Woolf

Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the…

— Virginia Woolf

if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about…

— Virginia Woolf

If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people…

— Virginia Woolf

Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking…

— Virginia Woolf

Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia…

— Virginia Woolf

In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about…

— Virginia Woolf

Submit to me." So she said nothing, but looked doggedly and sadly at the shore, wrapped in its mantle of peace; as…

— Virginia Woolf

There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own…

— Virginia Woolf

If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I…

— Virginia Woolf

If people are highly successful in their profession they lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures.…

— Virginia Woolf

Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift…

— Virginia Woolf

There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this…

— Virginia Woolf

Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is…

— Virginia Woolf

For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks;…

— Virginia Woolf

The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features…

— Virginia Woolf

If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures.…

— Virginia Woolf

Oh and I thought, as i was dressing, how interesting it would be to describe the approach of age, and the gradual…

— Virginia Woolf

Without those forerunners, Jane Austen and the Brontes and George Eliot could no more have written than Shakespeare could have written without…

— Virginia Woolf

I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

— Virginia Woolf

I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.

— Virginia Woolf

For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn...

— Virginia Woolf

I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.

— Virginia Woolf

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

— Virginia Woolf

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

— Virginia Woolf