Inspirational Quotes by Virginia Woolf

Use words that soak up life.

— Virginia Woolf

Life's bare as a bone.

— Virginia Woolf

How can I express the darkness?

— Virginia Woolf

Soup is cuisines kindest course

— Virginia Woolf

Life would split apart without letters.

— Virginia Woolf

The truer the facts the better the fiction.

— Virginia Woolf

Thoughts without words… Can that be?

— Virginia Woolf

I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.

— Virginia Woolf

It's the writing, not the being read, that excites me. Joy is in the doing.

— Virginia Woolf

Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Virginia Woolf

It's my choice, to choose how to live my life.

— Virginia Woolf

We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.

— Virginia Woolf

“One does not love a place the less because one has suffered in it.”

— Virginia Woolf

Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life.

— Virginia Woolf

I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.

— Virginia Woolf

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

— Virginia Woolf

The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

— Virginia Woolf

“What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or…

— Virginia Woolf

“Up goes the rocket. Its golden grain falls, fertilising, upon the rich soil of my imagination.”

— Virginia Woolf

“...to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.”

— Virginia Woolf

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

— Virginia Woolf

“One must own that there are certain books which can be read without the mind and without the heart, but still with…

— Virginia Woolf

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

— Virginia Woolf

“It is one of those invaluable seeds, from which, since it is impossible to have every experience fully, one can grow something…

— Virginia Woolf

“The journey is everything. Most necessary of all, but rarest good fortune, we should try to find some man of our own…

— Virginia Woolf

“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

“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

“Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook…

— Virginia Woolf

“For she had a great variety of selves to call upon, far more than we have been able to find room for,…

— Virginia Woolf

“Quiet descended on her, calm, content, as her needle, drawing the silk smoothly to its gentle pause, collected the green folds together…

— Virginia Woolf

All artists need a room of their own

— Virginia Woolf

Only longing can fill with more of itself.

— Virginia Woolf

War is not women's history.

— Virginia Woolf

I will go down with my colors flying.

— Virginia Woolf

All the time she writing the world had continued.

— Virginia Woolf

“I rise from my worst disasters, I turn, I change.”

— Virginia Woolf

But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.

— Virginia Woolf

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

— Virginia Woolf

One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.

— Virginia Woolf