Quotes from Virginia Woolf

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats—and one always secretes too much jelly.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.

You can not gain peace by avoiding life.