Virginia Woolf Quotes

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf

Humor, Tongue, Foreign

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf

Friendship, Poetry, Friends

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Virginia Woolf

Peace, Life, Find

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises 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

Time, Beautiful, Past

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Virginia Woolf

Love, Sleep, Cannot

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Language is wine upon the lips.
Virginia Woolf

Wine, Language, Lips

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
Virginia Woolf

History, Woman, Anonymous

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
Virginia Woolf

Woman, Country, Whole

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia Woolf

Heart, Past, Book

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf

Truth, Yourself, Cannot

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
Virginia Woolf

Women, Men, Why

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
Virginia Woolf

Soul, Show, Once

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Virginia Woolf

Life, Experience, Mind

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

Eternity, Sight, Print

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

Money, Woman, Her

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

Thought, Worse, Perhaps

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
Virginia Woolf

Older, Grows, Likes

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Virginia Woolf

Women, Power, Looking

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
Virginia Woolf

Life, Someone, Die

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
Virginia Woolf

Soul, Sun, Optimism

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
Virginia Woolf

Truth, Business, Fight

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
Virginia Woolf

Whatever, Pieces, Arrange

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

Thoughts, Eyes, Others

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
Virginia Woolf

Life, End, Beginning

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
Virginia Woolf

Passion, Brain, Why

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: January 25, 1882

Died: March 28, 1941

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