1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life…

...she felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the walls of partition had become so thin that practically (the feeling was one of relief and happiness) it was all one stream...

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.

We insist, it seems, on living.

It is the duty of the writer to describe.

The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.

I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.

If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.