1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

to teach without zest is a crime.

Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the trees ... one's happiness, one's reality?

But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.

Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.

The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its china walls unrecorded.

There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.

So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living.