All Virginia Woolf Quotes
- Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in… Background
- There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould… Arm
- This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of… Assumes
- If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to… Benefits
- It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike… Any
- Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the… Behind
- Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him,… Apparent
- Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the… Add
- When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the… Almighty
- First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air. Air
- and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage Apprehension
- But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment. Close
- She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the… Alone
- When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they? Affair
- Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit. Deceit
- For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and… Aloud
- Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living… Book
- The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong. Effort
- With my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon the massy wall… Cheek
- For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which… Case
- ...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to… Air
- I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else. Anything Else
- I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering… Answer
- All extremes of feeling are allied with madness. All
- Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy. Blade