1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

Gli occhi degli altri sono le nostre prigioni, i loro pensieri le nostre gabbie.

As a woman, I have no country.

Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.

She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine...

Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.

I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind’s passage through the world, achieve in the end some kind of whole made of shivering fragments.

Indeed he seemed to her sometimes made differently from other people, born blind, deaf, and dumb, to the ordinary things, but to the extraordinary things, with an eye like an eagle’s. His understanding often astonished her. But did he notice the flowers? No. Did he notice the view? No. Did he even notice his own daughter’s beauty, or whether there was pudding on his plate or roast beef? He would sit at table with them like a person in a dream.

Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.