1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

Never will I wake those echoes, never will I ask for that hospitality again, I vowed as I descended the steps in anger. Still an hour remained before luncheon, and what was one to do?

No, I’m not clever. I’ve always cared more for people than for ideas.

I’m terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.

I put my bare hand on her bare hand and felt, “This is genuine. There can be no mistake about this.

Facts are all that they can offer us, and facts are a very inferior form of fiction.

I am someone who thinks and feels much more than is reasonable. And that is all.

It is part of the novelist’s convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance...

Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.

Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of 52 Tavistock Square but I open my eyes and exclaim, “Good God! Here I am again!” not always with pleasure, often with pain; sometimes in a spasm.