1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

Life’s bare as a bone.

But I don’t think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

You would get longer livelier and more frequent letters from me, if it weren’t for the Christian religion. How that bell tolling at the end of the garden, dum dum, dum dum, annoys me! Why is Christianity so insistent and so sad?

Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall.

Cats do not go to heaven. Women cannot write the plays of Shakespeare.

Night had come – night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than by day.

She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist’s religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.

I see through most people; I’m hardly ever wrong. I see at once what they’ve got in them.

I really don’t advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married.