Quotes by Virginia Woolf

Explore a curated collection of 149 quotes by Virginia Woolf. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I sha — Virginia Woolf
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they? — Virginia Woolf
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others. — Virginia Woolf
To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what — Virginia Woolf
The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. — Virginia Woolf
By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the f — Virginia Woolf
Arrange whatever pieces come your way. — Virginia Woolf
Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure — Virginia Woolf
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. — Virginia Woolf
the battered woman--for she wore a skirt--with her right hand exposed, her left clutching at her side, stood singing of — Virginia Woolf
Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did — Virginia Woolf
Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money. — Virginia Woolf
As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be — Virginia Woolf
The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. — Virginia Woolf
No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes — Virginia Woolf
But love...it's only an illusion. A story one makes up in one's mind about another person. And one knows all the time it — Virginia Woolf
I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September. — Virginia Woolf
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have — Virginia Woolf
A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular g — Virginia Woolf
…the art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea…. It is on the back of an idea, something believe — Virginia Woolf