Psychology Quotes by Virginia Woolf

“Nothing exists outside of us except a state of mind...”

— Virginia Woolf

“Shakespeare's state of mind”

— Virginia Woolf

“What I value is the naked contact of a mind.”

— Virginia Woolf

I like to have space to spread my mind out in.

— Virginia Woolf

The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.

— Virginia Woolf

“The sweetness of this content overflowing runs down the walls of my mind, and liberates understanding.”

— Virginia Woolf

I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement...

— Virginia Woolf

They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Virginia Woolf

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

— Virginia Woolf

“How was one to lasso her mind, and tether it to this minute, unimportant spot?”

— Virginia Woolf

I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.

— Virginia Woolf

I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped…

— Virginia Woolf

“He meant, perhaps, that the androgynous mind is resonant and porous; that it transmits emotion without impediment; that it is naturally creative,…

— Virginia Woolf

Men felt a chill in their hearts; a damp in their minds. In a desperate effort to snuggle their feelings into some…

— Virginia Woolf

The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in…

— Virginia Woolf

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who…

— Virginia Woolf

“I have a perfectly romantic and no doubt untrue vision of you in my mind – stamping out the hops in a…

— Virginia Woolf

Night had come—night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine…

— Virginia Woolf

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at…

— Virginia Woolf

“Her mind was like her room, in which lights advanced and retreated, came pirouetting and stepping delicately, spread their tails, pecked their…

— Virginia Woolf

“But he never looked at his daughter, and strode out of the room, leaving in the minds of the women a sense,…

— Virginia Woolf

“As a cloud crosses the sun, silence falls on London; and falls on the mind. Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast.…

— Virginia Woolf

“she read, and so reading she was ascending, she felt, on to the top, on to the summit. How satisfying! How restful!…

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“And for some reason she held the sentence suspended without meaning in her mind’s ear, “…quite enough for everybody at present,” she…

— Virginia Woolf

“Nothing could be seen whole or read from start to finish. What was seen begun - like two friends starting to meet…

— Virginia Woolf

“Those great wars which the body wages with the mind a slave to it, in the solitude of the bedroom against the…

— 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

In each of us two powers preside, one male, one female: and in the man's brain, the man predominates over the woman,…

— Virginia Woolf

“The morning was hot, and the exercise of reading left her mind contracting and expanding like the main-spring of a clock, and…

— Virginia Woolf

A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook,…

— Virginia Woolf

“For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how many different people are…

— Virginia Woolf

“But what might be written in the book which had rounded its edges off in his pocket, she did not know. What…

— Virginia Woolf

“Somehow the fact that only three or four hundred years ago these skeletons had been men with their way to make in…

— Virginia Woolf

“It was a splendid mind. For if thought is like the keyboard of a piano, divided into so many notes, or like…

— Virginia Woolf

“Words... are the wildest, freest, most irresponsible, most unteachable of all things. Of course, you can catch them and sort them and…

— Virginia Woolf

“I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighed like sugar and butter”

— Virginia Woolf

It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly.

— Virginia Woolf

The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.

— Virginia Woolf

There is no doubt in my mind, that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my…

— Virginia Woolf