Virginia Woolf
24 quotations
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.
On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.