Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“...to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Up goes the rocket. Its golden grain falls, fertilising, upon the rich soil of my imagination.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“One must own that there are certain books which can be read without the mind and without the heart, but still with… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Recall, then, some event that has left a distinct impression on you---how at the corner of the street, perhaps, you passed two… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Quiet descended on her, calm, content, as her needle, drawing the silk smoothly to its gentle pause, collected the green folds together… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For she had a great variety of selves to call upon, far more than we have been able to find room for,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“One does not love a place the less because one has suffered in it.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life -… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
