1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found the story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories?

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began?

Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life.

She felt drawing further from her and further from her an Archduke, (she did not mind that) a fortune, (she did not mind that) the safety and circumstance of married life, (she did not mind that) but life she heard going from her, and a lover.

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.

A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.