Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and also a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. These inspirational Virginia Woolf Quotes will change your life.
Best Virginia Woolf Quotes
- “But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.” – Virginia Woolf
- “A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh, why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.” – Virginia Woolf
- “Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.” – Virginia Woolf
- “I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.” – Virginia Woolf
- “My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.” – Virginia Woolf
- “A light here required a shadow there.” – Virginia Woolf
- “How can I express the darkness?” – Virginia Woolf
- “It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.” – Virginia Woolf
- “Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.” – Virginia Woolf
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“I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.” – Virginia Woolf
- “For nothing was simply one thing.” – Virginia Woolf
- “Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling around the room.” – Virginia Woolf
- “Fear no more, says the heart.” – Virginia Woolf
- “I will go down with my colors flying.” – Virginia Woolf
- “The depths of the sea are only water after all.” – Virginia Woolf
- “I am rooted, but I flow.” – Virginia Woolf
- “Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.” – Virginia Woolf
- “Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.” – Virginia Woolf
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“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well.” – Virginia Woolf
- “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” – Virginia Woolf
- “Books are the mirrors of the soul.” – Virginia Woolf
- “A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.” – Virginia Woolf
- “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” – Virginia Woolf
- “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” – Virginia Woolf
- “I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.” – Virginia Woolf
- “I like to have space to spread my mind out in.” – Virginia Woolf
- “Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m not thinking of you” – Virginia Woolf
- “The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.” – Virginia Woolf
- “Thinking is my fighting.” – Virginia Woolf
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“Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.” – Virginia Woolf
- “It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.” – Virginia Woolf
- “And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.” – Virginia Woolf
- “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.” – Virginia Woolf
- “I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.” – Virginia Woolf
- “I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.” – Virginia Woolf
- “These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.” – Virginia Woolf
- “All extremes of feeling are allied to madness.” – Virginia Woolf
- “Never pretend that the things you haven’t got are not worth having.” – Virginia Woolf
- “Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.” – Virginia Woolf
- “Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.” – Virginia Woolf
- “It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.” – Virginia Woolf
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“Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?” – Virginia Woolf
- “How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?” – Virginia Woolf
- “As a woman, I have no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.” – Virginia Woolf
- “I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.” – Virginia Woolf
- “I’m terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.” – Virginia Woolf
- “In solitude, we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.” – Virginia Woolf
- “Intimacy is a difficult art.” – Virginia Woolf
- “I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.” – Virginia Woolf
- “Thoughts without words… Can that be?” – Virginia Woolf
