Virginia Woolf Quotes

“Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title”

― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

topic:friendship past

“And she didn't know their names, but friends she knew they were, friends without names, songs without words, always the best.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

topic:friendship music

“But beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty—it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life—froze it.”

― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

topic:beauty appearance

“When I'm with artists 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, and then I go out into the streets and the first child I meet with its poor, hungry,...”

― Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

topic:reality art

“she thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

topic:religion goodness

“one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.”

― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

topic:words

“When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.”

― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

topic:words darkness

“A good phrase, however, seems to me to have an independent existence. Yet I think it is likely that the best are made in solitude.”

― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

topic:writing loneliness

“any one who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, with extravagant enthusiasm.”

― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

topic:reading

“I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married”

― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

topic:marriage woman way

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