All Virginia Woolf Quotes
- 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
- But what a little I can get down into my pen of what is so vivid to my eyes, and not only to my eyes;… Down
- The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think. Best
- We seem to be riding on the top of the highest mast of the tallest ship; and yet at the same time we know that… Achievement
- In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality. Illness
- But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It… Belief
- A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop. Bookshop
- Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that… All
- The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering. Capricious
- What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who… Accidentally
- Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage… Accomplished
- Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand. Anodyne
- Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is… Clothes
- Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters… Deforms
- Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned… Anonymity
- We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how… Able