All Virginia Woolf Quotes
- So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours,… Abject
- While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its… Alone
- I have had my vision. Funny
- Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a… Beautiful
- They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were… All
- If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon… Asked
- It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was… All
- Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just… Angel
- When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre Draw
- Still, life had a way of adding day to day Adding
- Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall All
- I have sometimes dreamt ... that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards… Almighty
- For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself. Beyond
- Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts which are the… Boldly
- For pleasure has no relish unless we share it. Inspirational
- Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of… Action
- There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination. Changing
- We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human. Analyse
- We insist, it seems, on living. Funny
- and then he could not see her come into a room without a sense of the flowing of robes, of the flowering of blossoms, of… All
- Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped. Drop
- A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch… All
- Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. Anything Else
- As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking. Dignity
- Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living? Business