All Virginia Woolf Quotes
- For if Chloe likes Olivia and Mary Carmichael knows how to express it she will light a torch in that vast chamber where nobody has… Been
- Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes. Arcades
- No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas. Always Cared
- It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole. This wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me;… Delight
- A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. Age
- Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the… Asunder
- To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to… Admit
- I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot. Inspirational
- Soup is cuisines kindest course Course
- But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood. Coloured
- I will dream today; for I must unscrew my head somehow. Dream
- They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought. Comfort
- Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath. Beneath
- London perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play and a story and a poem, without any trouble, save that of moving my legs through the… Alone
- The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your… Advice
- The immense success of our life is, I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that nothing can touch… Common
- I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity. Acquiescence
- The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping. Came
- If people are highly successful in their profession they lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They… Conversation
- Oh and I thought, as i was dressing, how interesting it would be to describe the approach of age, and the gradual coming of death.… Age
- Yes, yes, I'm coming. Right up the top of the house. One moment I'll linger. How the mud goes round in the mind-what a swirl… Atoms
- Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play. Allow
- But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to make for themselves… All
- Sir, I would trust you with my heart. Moreover, we have left our bodies in the banqueting hall. Those on the turf are the shadows… Banqueting
- She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears;… Absorbed