1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose.

Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.

You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the color goes out of my life.

... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to break her and bullyher, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.

The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon; no perception comes amiss.

Thoughts without words… Can that be?