Quotes from Virginia Woolf
They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought.
- Virginia Woolf
And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
- Virginia Woolf
Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
- Virginia Woolf
Sir, I would trust you with my heart. Moreover, we have left our bodies in the banqueting hall. Those on the turf are the shadows of our souls.
- Virginia Woolf
Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
- Virginia Woolf
Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?
- Virginia Woolf
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.
- Virginia Woolf
Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!
- Virginia Woolf
He is precisely the young man to fall headlong in love and repent it for the rest of his life.
- Virginia Woolf
As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear, pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.
- Virginia Woolf
if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.
- Virginia Woolf
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
- Virginia Woolf