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Virginia Woolf Quotes

Total quotes: 163
“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 am the seasons, I think sometimes, January, May, November; the mud, the mist, the dawn. I cannot be tossed about, or float gently, or mix with other people.”
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Tagged: Seasons, changing as times change, Feelings, emotions, Self & Identity, special snowflake, Sensitivity, self awareness, Self Construction
“Do you realise how devoted I am to you, all the same? There's nothing I wouldn't do for you, dearest Honey.”
— Virginia Woolf, The letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume 3
Tagged: Love, romance, love & devotion, Loving Deeply, How To Say I Love You, I Love You, Cute Things to Say, Devotion
“My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.”
— Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary
Tagged: Anxiety, what anxiety feels like, anxiety in literature, Mind, Examples of Similes
“I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.”
— Virginia Woolf, Diary of Virginia Woolf Vol. 1
“She did not want to move, or to speak. She wanted to rest, to lean, to dream. She felt very tired.”
— Virginia Woolf, The Years
Tagged: helpless, Tired
“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
— Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being
Tagged: Desire, Dreams
“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
“I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.”
— Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
Tagged: Love, inspiration, Reality
“They were in love, happy, content; but why was it so painful being in love, why was there so much pain in happiness?”
— Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out(Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
Tagged: Love, Happiness, Contentment, Pain, hurt
“A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions or admires her understanding.”
— Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography
Tagged: Dating, Respect, Love
“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
“But with you I am deeply passionately, unrequitedly in love.”
— Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings(The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series)
Tagged: Passionate Love, One Sided Love, Romantic Literature
“People are–nothing more.”
— Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out: By Virginia Woolf- Illustrated
Tagged: Society, People We Me Meet
“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
“Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.”
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Tagged: Honesty, Positive Trait, Motivational Quote
“It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.”
— Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Tagged: expressing feelings, Feelings, expression
“I wish you’d find the exit out of my head.”
— Virginia Woolf, Letter to Vita Sackville-West,’ November 22, 1933
Tagged: Hope, Desire, Thoughts, Thinking, Love
“Some people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends.”
— Virginia Woolf, Selected Works Of Virginia Woolf
Tagged: Friendship, Friends
“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
— Virginia Woolf, A Haunted House: The Complete Shorter Fiction
Tagged: Eyes, Thoughts, Metaphor, Prison
“It becomes clear that I am not one and simple, but complex and many.”
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Tagged: complex, Complicated, Personality, Paradox
“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
“I think it is likely that the best of everything is made in solitude.”
— Virginia Woolf, Selected Works Of Virginia Woolf
“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
“It is so beautiful, so exciting, this love, that I tremble on the verge of it.”
— Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Tagged: Terror of Love, Intensity of Feeling, Feeling Too Much
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