1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!

Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame

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

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

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

I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.

Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often not. Life is a dream surely.