Virginia Woolf Quotes Page 2
Best 49 Quotes by Virginia Woolf – Page 2 of 2
Jacob's Room Quotes
“Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title.”
Moments of Being Quotes
“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
Mrs. Dalloway Quotes
“It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.”
“It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.”
“What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”
Night and Day Quotes
“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
Orlando Quotes
“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
“I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.”
“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
“There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.”
“Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality, has no such simple effect upon the mind of man. The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second.”
Selected Diaries Quotes
“Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you.”
The Voyage Out Quotes
“I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.”
“It appeared that nobody ever said a thing they meant, or ever talked of a feeling they felt, but that was what music was for.”
“It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.”
“People are — nothing more.”
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“If he wants to be an *sshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.”
“Tragedies come in the hungry hours.”
“We're all in the dark. We try to find out, but can you imagine anything more ludicrous than one person's opinion of another person? One goes along thinking one knows; but one really doesn't know.”
The Waves Quotes
“I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”
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Virginia Woolf Sources
- All quotes by Virginia Woolf (49 quotes)
- A Room of One's Own (7 quotes)
- Between the Acts (1 quote)
- Jacob's Room (2 quotes)
- Moments of Being (1 quote)
- Mrs. Dalloway (3 quotes)
- Night and Day (1 quote)
- Orlando (5 quotes)
- Selected Diaries (1 quote)
- The Voyage Out (6 quotes)
- The Waves (1 quote)
- Other quotes by Virginia Woolf (21 quotes)