1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title

The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

That complete statement which is literature.

Life would split apart without letters.

As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.

He began to search among the infinite series of impressions which time had laid down, leaf upon leaf, fold upon fold softly, incessantly upon his brain; among scents, sounds; voices, harsh, hollow, sweet; and lights passing, and brooms tapping; and the wash and hush of the sea.

If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties.

A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction