1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.

London perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play and a story and a poem, without any trouble, save that of moving my legs through the streets... To walk alone through London is the greatest rest.

Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.

I'm fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It's an odd feeling though, writing aginst the current: difficult entirely to disregard the current. Yet of course I shall.

After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole. This wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me; it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put the severed parts together

What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.

The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it.