Quotes from Virginia Woolf
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
- Virginia Woolf
At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.
- Virginia Woolf
What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.
- Virginia Woolf
One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.
- 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
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
- Virginia Woolf
In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
- Virginia Woolf
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
- Virginia Woolf
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
- Virginia Woolf
The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.
- 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
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
- Virginia Woolf