1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it’s place?

The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour’s discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know.

Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.

Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall.

Richard has improved. You are right,” said Sally. “I shall go and talk to him. I shall say goodnight. What does the brain matter,” said Lady Rosseter, getting up, “compared with the heart?” “I will come,” said Peter, but he sat on for a moment. What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.

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

When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.