1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

Would there be trees if we didn't see them?

What a comfort is friendship in this world.

To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.

Life's bare as a bone.

The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause; another chirped lower down. The sun sharpended the walls of the house, and rested like the tip of a fan upon a white blind and made a fingerprint of a shadow under the leaf by the bedroom window. The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial. The birds sang their blank melody outside.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.

Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.

scarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle; the vast majority of birds and beasts have been killed by you, not by us. Obviously there is for you some glory, some necessity, some satisfaction in fighting which we have never felt or enjoyed.