1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.

We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.

All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the general mind which they interpret and indeed almost discover, so that we come to read them rather for that than for any story or character or scene of seperate excellence.

Oh, I am in love with life!

I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer?

I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part one strikes on, I mean.

Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.