Quotes from Virginia Woolf
Books are the mirrors of the soul.
- Virginia Woolf
As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.
- Virginia Woolf
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
- Virginia Woolf
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
- Virginia Woolf
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
- Virginia Woolf
There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.
- Virginia Woolf
I am rooted, but I flow.
- Virginia Woolf
Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
- Virginia Woolf
Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
- Virginia Woolf
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
- Virginia Woolf
Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.
- Virginia Woolf
I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
- Virginia Woolf