No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas. — 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
Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is one of those invaluable seeds, from which, since it is impossible to have every experience fully, one can grow something… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It's the writing, not the being read, that excites me. Joy is in the doing. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It seems that a profound, impartial, and absolutely just opinion of our fellow-creatures is utterly unknown. Either we are men, or we… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The journey is everything. Most necessary of all, but rarest good fortune, we should try to find some man of our own… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. — 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
“What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or… — 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
