Virginia Woolf Quotes

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

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.