1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone.

What, indeed, if you look from a mountain-top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

When the guns fired in August 1914, did the faces of men and women show so plain in each other's eyes that romance was killed?

She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged

Like all feelings felt for oneself, Mrs. Ramsay thought, it made one sad. It was so inadequate, what one could give in return; and what Rose felt was quite out of proportion to anything she actually was.

А он вот идет по Лондону, идет сказать Клариссе, что он любит ее, именно в этих словах. Такое, в общем, не говоришь, думал он. Отчасти ленишься; отчасти стесняешься..... Ведь жалко безумно, что мы не высказываем своих чувств...

The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.

Any method is right, every method is right, that expresses what we wish to express, if we are writers; that brings us closer to the novelist's intention if we are readers.

For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.