All Virginia Woolf Quotes
- 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
- For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately. Book
- Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There… Among
- Life stand still here. Crafts
- Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision. Brush
- What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation… All
- What a lark! What a plunge! Inspirational
- I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual Breaking
- Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that… Fingers
- Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths… Blurted
- But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm. Anyone