All Virginia Woolf Quotes
- Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from… Air
- I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run… All
- For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way between the boles… Among
- The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its… China
- Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth. Atmosphere
- Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated… Book
- to teach without zest is a crime. Crime
- I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married Advise
- Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once. Board
- Would there be trees if we didn't see them? Funny
- Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning? Carried
- All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak… All
- Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are! All
- Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for. Dignifies
- It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite… Bring
- When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing. Cannot See
- for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men,… Any
- Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected… Appearance
- Yet, she said to herself, form the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if you asked nine… All
- Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began? Advanced
- I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement... Final
- She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of… Atheist
- What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this… Admire
- Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of… All
- They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort. Any