Virginia Woolf Quotes

“There was an emptiness about the heart of life; an attic room. Women must put off their rich apparel. At midday they must disrobe.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

topic:women loneliness

“as long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking”

― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

topic:women thinking

“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

topic:women writing

“it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge”

― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

topic:knowledge

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt, that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

topic:freedom mind

“now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

topic:freedom

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”

― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

topic:self

“Fear no more, says the heart in the body; fear no more.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

topic:fear heart courage

“When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.”

― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

topic:heart

“How useful an office one's friends perform when they recall us.”

― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

topic:friendship

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