1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

Isa let her sewing drop. The great hooded chairs had become enormous. And Giles too. And Isa too against the window. The window was all sky without colour. The house had lost its shelter. It was night before roads were made, or houses. It was the night that dwellers in caves had watched from some high place among rocks.Then the curtain rose. They spoke.

The world is crammed with delightful things. I think young people make such a mistake about that — not letting themselves be happy. I sometimes think that happiness is the only thing that counts.

She [did feel] made aware of the pettiness of some part of her, and of human relations how flawed they are, how despicable, how self-seeking, at their best.

He- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it- was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.

Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting.

Nuestro punto de vista lo pasan completamente por alto: nunca hemos sentido de veras la presión de una sola ley, nuestras pasiones y desesperaciones nada tienen que ver con el comercio, nuestros vicios y virtudes florecen por igual, e imparcialmente, al margen del gobierno que está en el poder. La maquinaria que describen... logran hasta cierto punto llevarnos a creer en todo ello, pero el meollo de la cuestión lo dejan sin tocar siquiera. ¿Será acaso porque no está en su mano entenderlo?

en tant que femme je n ai pas de pays. En tant que femme je ne désire aucun pays. Mon pays a moi, femme, c est le monde entier.

First she starved herself of love, which meant also life; then of poetry in deference to what she thought her religion demanded.

When the wolf walks by you, you will remember.