All Virginia Woolf Quotes
- Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an… Any
- When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument. Arguer
- You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that… Adulterated
- Life's bare as a bone. Bare
- 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, all that remains… All
- So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this… Ask
- But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that… Added
- The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that… Airman
- One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words. Alone
- We shall be the mouthpieces of the divine spirit— Divine
- A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand. Accounts
- What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once. Amusement
- Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of 52 Tavistock Square… Alone
- One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk. Inspirational
- Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. Firsts
- You cannot find peace by avoiding life. Avoiding
- Language is wine upon the lips. Inspirational
- I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't… Beautiful
- One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. Cannot Think
- Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. Best Friend