40 Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf


40 Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf. Here are the best Virginia Woolf quotes to read that will surely inspire you. Born in South Kensington, London, Adeline Virginia Woolf is an English writer who is considered one of the most important modern authors of the 20th century. Virginia Woolf was also known as a pioneer in using the stream of conscientiousness as a narrative device. May these quotes by Virginia Woolf enlighten you about the reality of life, understand yourself better, and to inspire you positively in your life journey. Share these famous Virginia Woolf quotes with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.


Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

1. If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

2. Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

3. I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

4. The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

5. It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

6. They can because they think they can. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

7. Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

8. When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they? - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

9. When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness, I am nothing. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

10. The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

11. Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

12. As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

13. I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

14. I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

15. It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

16. No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

17. Arrange whatever pieces come your way. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

18. The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of emancipation itself. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

19. Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

20. To love makes one solitary. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

21. All extremes of feeling are allied with madness. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

22. Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

23. It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

24. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

25. I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am rooted, but I flow. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

26. It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes makes its way to the surface. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

27. What does the brain matter compared with the heart? - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

28. Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

29. It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

30. Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

31. I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

32. Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

33. Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

34. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

35. I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

36. Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty, it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life, froze it. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

37. It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

38. How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger? - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

39. The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. - Virginia Woolf



Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf

40. Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched love for instance we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next. - Virginia Woolf

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