All Virginia Woolf Quotes
- The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped… Aware
- My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why?… Always Buzzing
- Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art. All
- A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts… Curtain
- Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order. Brings
- I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it. Book
- It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. Fatal
- It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. Dream
- The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. Anguish
- To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father. Depend
- One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among… Aging
- The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers. Clothes
- Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. Been
- Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. Best
- Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic. Blessing
- We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new… Best
- I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose. All
- Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life. Curtailment
- On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. Agony
- One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. Adversity