40 Famous quotes and sayings by Virginia Woolf. Here are the best Virginia Woolf quotes to read that will surely inspire you. Born in South Kensington, London, Adeline Virginia Woolf is an English writer who is considered one of the most important modern authors of the 20th century. Virginia Woolf was also known as a pioneer in using the stream of conscientiousness as a narrative device. May these quotes by Virginia Woolf enlighten you about the reality of life, understand yourself better, and to inspire you positively in your life journey. Share these famous Virginia Woolf quotes with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.
1. If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. - Virginia Woolf
2. Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us. - Virginia Woolf
3. I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me. - Virginia Woolf
4. The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. - Virginia Woolf
5. It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning. - Virginia Woolf
6. They can because they think they can. - Virginia Woolf
7. Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having. - Virginia Woolf
8. When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they? - Virginia Woolf
9. When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness, I am nothing. - Virginia Woolf
10. The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. - Virginia Woolf
11. Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself. - Virginia Woolf
12. As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking. - Virginia Woolf
13. I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life. - Virginia Woolf
14. I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. - Virginia Woolf
15. It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. - Virginia Woolf
16. No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. - Virginia Woolf
17. Arrange whatever pieces come your way. - Virginia Woolf
18. The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of emancipation itself. - Virginia Woolf
19. Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others. - Virginia Woolf
20. To love makes one solitary. - Virginia Woolf
21. All extremes of feeling are allied with madness. - Virginia Woolf
22. Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy. - Virginia Woolf
23. It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels. - Virginia Woolf
24. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. - Virginia Woolf
25. I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am rooted, but I flow. - Virginia Woolf
26. It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes makes its way to the surface. - Virginia Woolf
27. What does the brain matter compared with the heart? - Virginia Woolf
28. Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence. - Virginia Woolf
29. It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. - Virginia Woolf
30. Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure. - Virginia Woolf
31. I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. - Virginia Woolf
32. Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you. - Virginia Woolf
33. Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart. - Virginia Woolf
34. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life. - Virginia Woolf
35. I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married. - Virginia Woolf
36. Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty, it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life, froze it. - Virginia Woolf
37. It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy. - Virginia Woolf
38. How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger? - Virginia Woolf
39. The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. - Virginia Woolf
40. Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched love for instance we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next. - Virginia Woolf
1. If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. - Virginia Woolf
2. Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us. - Virginia Woolf
3. I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me. - Virginia Woolf
4. The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. - Virginia Woolf
5. It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning. - Virginia Woolf
6. They can because they think they can. - Virginia Woolf
7. Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having. - Virginia Woolf
8. When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they? - Virginia Woolf
9. When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness, I am nothing. - Virginia Woolf
10. The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. - Virginia Woolf
11. Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself. - Virginia Woolf
12. As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking. - Virginia Woolf
13. I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life. - Virginia Woolf
14. I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. - Virginia Woolf
15. It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. - Virginia Woolf
16. No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. - Virginia Woolf
17. Arrange whatever pieces come your way. - Virginia Woolf
18. The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of emancipation itself. - Virginia Woolf
19. Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others. - Virginia Woolf
20. To love makes one solitary. - Virginia Woolf
21. All extremes of feeling are allied with madness. - Virginia Woolf
22. Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy. - Virginia Woolf
23. It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels. - Virginia Woolf
24. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. - Virginia Woolf
25. I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am rooted, but I flow. - Virginia Woolf
26. It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes makes its way to the surface. - Virginia Woolf
27. What does the brain matter compared with the heart? - Virginia Woolf
28. Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence. - Virginia Woolf
29. It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. - Virginia Woolf
30. Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure. - Virginia Woolf
31. I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. - Virginia Woolf
32. Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you. - Virginia Woolf
33. Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart. - Virginia Woolf
34. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life. - Virginia Woolf
35. I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married. - Virginia Woolf
36. Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty, it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life, froze it. - Virginia Woolf
37. It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy. - Virginia Woolf
38. How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger? - Virginia Woolf
39. The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. - Virginia Woolf
40. Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched love for instance we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next. - Virginia Woolf