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Virginia Woolf Quotes

Total quotes: 98
“What matters is precisely this; the unspoken at the edge of the spoken.”
— Virginia Woolf, via Amazon
Tagged: unspoken, spoken, Unsaid Things, Unsaid Feelings, Feelings, Communication
“I want to write a novel about silence. The things people don’t say.”
— Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
Tagged: Silence, Writing, novel
“The truth is that I am not one of those who find their satisfaction in one person, or in infinity.”
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Tagged: self, Identity
“The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went.”
— Virginia Woolf, Orlando
Tagged: Sad, Cycles of Love
“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 volumes of the library lack.”
— Virginia Woolf, Street Haunting
Tagged: Books, Novels, Secondhand, library, Oldness
“I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.”
— Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
Tagged: Introvert
“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”
— Virginia Woolf, Selected Essays
Tagged: Art, Violence
“What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”
— Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Tagged: Brain, heart
“I feel insignificant, lost, but exultant.”
— Virginia Woolf, Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf(Illustrated)
Tagged: Deep Feelings, Ironic
“Thinking is my fighting.”
— Virginia Woolf, Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid
Tagged: Thinking, Mind, Intelligence, strength
“They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.”
— Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Tagged: Thinking of Someone, Relationships, Love
“It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.”
— Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Tagged: expressing feelings, Feelings, expression
“My heart currently resembles the ashes of my cigarettes.”
— Virginia Woolf, I Am In The Mood To Dissolve In The Sky
Tagged: heart, Cigarettes, Nicotine, Broken Heart, Heart Break, Pain
“I like observing people. I like looking at things.”
— Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out(Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
Tagged: Observant, curious, interested
“My boldness terrifies me.”
— Virginia Woolf, Walking Virginia Woolf’s London: An Investigation in Literary Geography
Tagged: strength, boldness, Bravery, Courage
“My imagination tells lies, too.”
— Virginia Woolf, Selected Diaries
Tagged: Imagination, Reality, Lie
“I want everything – love, adventure, intimacy, work.”
— Virginia Woolf, Letter to Leonard Woolf
Tagged: Love, Desire, Intimacy, Work, Adventure
“I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.”
— Virginia Woolf, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Mood, Poetry
“I think you understand better than most people.”
— Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
Tagged: Understanding, Compatibility, Comfortability
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Tagged: Be yourself, Chill, Impressing Others
“She is rather like the winter sun–her ruddy edges slightly blurred.”
— Virginia Woolf, The Complete Works of Virginia Woolf; Selected Diaries
Tagged: Wild Child, Nature
“Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.”
— Virginia Woolf, Selected Letters
Tagged: Love, Literature, I Miss You, LDR
“I am like the foam that races over the beach or the moonlight that falls arrow-like here on a tin can, here on a spike of the mailed sea holly, or a bone or a half-eaten boat.”
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Tagged: Ocean, Examples of Similes
“You’re the only person I’ve ever met who seems to have the faintest conception of what I mean when I say a thing.”
— Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
Tagged: Love, romance
“How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it.”
— Virginia Woolf, The Mark on the Wall
Tagged: Analogies, When The Muses Come, Intoxication, Anthropomorphic Metaphors, List: Anthropomorphic Metaphors
“She would not say of any one in the world that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged. She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on.”
— Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Tagged: Existential Crisis, Midlife Crisis, Tired, Sensitive People
“Tears rose slowly in her eyes and stood there, brimming but contained. The tears of some profound emotion, happiness, grief, renunciation; an emotion so complex in its nature that to express it was impossible.”
— Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
Tagged: Tears, Crying, The Meaning of Tears
“It seemed to her that there was something amateurish in bringing romantic love into touch with a perfectly straightforward friendship.”
— Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
Tagged: Marriage, Love, Friendship
“I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.”
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Tagged: Identity
“Mrs Swithin took her knitting from the table. 'Did you feel,' she asked, 'what he said: we act different parts but are the same?'”
— Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
“Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.”
— Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader
“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
“Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?”
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
“'That was the burden,' she mused, 'laid on me in the cradle; murmured by waves; breathed by restless elm trees; crooned by singing women; what we must rememeber; what we would forget.'”
— Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
“Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
“But look—he flicks his hand to the back of his neck. For such gesture one falls hopelessly in love for a lifetime.”
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
“Theirs, too, is the word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.”
— Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader
“Words rose above the intolerably laden dumb oxen plodding through the mud. Words without meaning - wonderful words.”
— Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
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