Humans Quotes by Virginia Woolf

The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.

— Virginia Woolf

My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.

— Virginia Woolf

... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony.

— Virginia Woolf

On or about December 1910, human character changed.

— Virginia Woolf

Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life.

— Virginia Woolf

It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.

— Virginia Woolf

We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.

— Virginia Woolf

We scarcely wish to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.

— Virginia Woolf

What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she…

— Virginia Woolf

Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

— Virginia Woolf

Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human…

— Virginia Woolf

The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.

— Virginia Woolf

Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies…

— Virginia Woolf

It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with…

— Virginia Woolf

It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down…

— Virginia Woolf

Conversation, fastidious goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will.

— Virginia Woolf

To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly,…

— Virginia Woolf

Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert.…

— Virginia Woolf

The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they…

— Virginia Woolf

Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention…

— Virginia Woolf

Altogether, the task of estimating the length of human life is beyond our capacity, for directly we say that it is ages…

— Virginia Woolf

We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand…

— Virginia Woolf

... the random talk of people who have no chance of immortality and thus can speak their minds out has a setting,…

— Virginia Woolf

“Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and…

— Virginia Woolf

It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets…

— Virginia Woolf

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or…

— Virginia Woolf

“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the…

— Virginia Woolf

Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so…

— Virginia Woolf

Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is…

— 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

That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience…

— Virginia Woolf

For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer…

— Virginia Woolf

How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in…

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Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things…

— Virginia Woolf

If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of…

— Virginia Woolf

scarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle; the vast majority of birds and beasts…

— Virginia Woolf

They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that;…

— Virginia Woolf

I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give…

— Virginia Woolf

For it is a curious fact that though human beings have such imperfect means of communication, that they can only say 'good…

— Virginia Woolf

We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the…

— Virginia Woolf