1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

Dr. Holmes came again. Large, fresh coloured, handsome, flicking his boots, looking in the glass, he brushed it all aside-headaches, sleeplessness, fears, dreams-nerve symptoms and nothing more, he said.

When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have managed things better--her husband; money; his books. But for her own part she would never for a single second regret her decision, evade difficulties, or slur over duties

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction.

Até os homens e as mulheres parecem ter encolhido, tornaram-se numerosos e diminutos ao invés de únicos e substanciais.

But when she looked at Prue tonight, she saw this was not now quite true of her. She was just beginning, just moving, just descending.

The only truth which she could discover was the truth of what she herself felt.

I am not one and simple, but complex and many.