Virginia Woolf Quotes

All extremes of feeling are allied to madness.

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

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

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it’s there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

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

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

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

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

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

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.