1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

It was this that made him attractive to women, who liked the sense that he was not altogether manly. There was something unusual about him, or something behind him. It might be that he was bookish -- never came to see you without taking up the book on the table (he was now reading, with his bootlaces trailing on the floor)...

Las mujeres han servido durante siglos como espejos dotados del mágico y delicioso poder de reflejar la figura del hombre duplicando su tamaño natural.

I have had my vision

For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.

To tell the truth about oneself, to discover oneself near at hand, is not easy.

(...) it being her experience that the religious ecstasy made people callous (so did causes); dulled their feelings (...)

I have sometimes dreamt ... that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards -- their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble -- the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when He sees us coming with our books under our arms, "Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.