Virginia Woolf Quotes

I see through most people; I'm hardly ever wrong. I see at once what they've got in them.

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When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.

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I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.

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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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With my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon the massy wall of time, which is forever lifting and pulling and letting fresh spaces of life in upon us. May it be mine to taste the moment before it has spread itself over the rest of the world! Let me taste the newest and the freshest.

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We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments.

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Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.

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It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down.

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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

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I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

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Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

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When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre

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O how blessed it would be never to marry, or grow old; but to spend one's life innocently and indifferently among the trees and rivers which alone can keep one cool and childlike in the midst of the troubles of the world!

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If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people readingfor the love of reading, slowly and unprofessionally, and judging with great sympathy and yet with great severity, might this not improve the quality of his work? And if by our means books were to become stronger, richer, and more varied, that would be an end worth reaching.

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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

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As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.

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Facts must be manipulated; some must be brightened; others shaded; yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity.

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I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.

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Now to sum it up,' said Bernard. 'Now to explain to you the meaning of my life. Since we do not know each other (though I met you once I think, on board a ship going to Africa), we can talk freely. The illusion is upon me that something adheres for a moment, has roundness, weight, depth, is completed. This, for the moment, seems to be my life. If it were possible, I would hand it you entire. I would break it off as one breaks off a bunch of grapes. I would say, "Take it. This is my life.

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