Thinking Quotes by Virginia Woolf

Thinking is my fighting.

— Virginia Woolf

I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Virginia Woolf

“The brain is always thinking, but who is it who is thinking?”

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Virginia Woolf

The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.

— Virginia Woolf

Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you

— Virginia Woolf

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

— Virginia Woolf

And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.

— Virginia Woolf

I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men…

— Virginia Woolf

For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt…

— Virginia Woolf

Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is…

— Virginia Woolf

Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying…

— Virginia Woolf

The immense success of our life is, I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that…

— Virginia Woolf

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of…

— Virginia Woolf

Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

— Virginia Woolf

I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical,…

— Virginia Woolf

The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very…

— Virginia Woolf

Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…

— Virginia Woolf

Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to…

— Virginia Woolf

I am obsessed at nights with the idea of my own worthlessness, and if it were only to turn a light on…

— 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

Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past,…

— Virginia Woolf

The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature.…

— Virginia Woolf

If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I…

— Virginia Woolf

“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt…

— 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

Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws…

— Virginia Woolf

Now to sum it up,' said Bernard. 'Now to explain to you the meaning of my life. Since we do not know…

— Virginia Woolf

The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features…

— Virginia Woolf

Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea…

— Virginia Woolf

“Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mountain-top is covered…

— Virginia Woolf

Without those forerunners, Jane Austen and the Brontes and George Eliot could no more have written than Shakespeare could have written without…

— Virginia Woolf

I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.

— Virginia Woolf

For we think back through our mothers if we are women.

— Virginia Woolf

When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.

— Virginia Woolf

You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.

— Virginia Woolf

Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

— Virginia Woolf

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am…

— Virginia Woolf

The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking…

— Virginia Woolf