All Virginia Woolf Quotes
- To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in… Control
- If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but… Adventure
- Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death! Death
- Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy… All
- I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms. Brain
- Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation… All
- If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and… Beautiful
- King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say. Assure
- It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. Entirely
- To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action. Able
- Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable… Arduous
- The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence. Amount
- You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life. Colour
- I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time. I hear voices… Any
- In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us. Attention
- Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles. Awareness
- It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time,… Becomes
- Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations ... Analysis
- If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things. Crafts
- When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very… Anon
- The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man. Chief
- Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to… Business
- Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a… Ascent
- Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death. Biographies
- It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent. Equivalent