1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

The most monstrous monster is the monster with noble feelings.

With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes – one of the tragedies of married life.

I’m fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It’s an odd feeling though, writing aginst the current: difficult entirely to disregard the current. Yet of course I shall.

One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that’s a chair, that’s a table, and yet at the same time, It’s a miracle, it’s an ecstasy.

The mind is the most capricious of insects – flitting, fluttering.

Cierra con llave tus bibliotecas, si quieres, pero no hay barrera, cerradura, ni cerrojo que puedas imponer a la libertad de mi mente.

Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence.

To be nothing – is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?

I am rooted, but I flow. All gold, flowing that way.