1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat’s; or she purred.

They can because they think they can.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of life – one scratched on the wall.

I will not be “famous,” “great.” I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one’s self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.

When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook – a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.

If we didn’t live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I’ve no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.

One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one’s words.

If it were now to die, ’twere now to be most happy.