Quotes by : Virginia Woolf

This late age of the world’s experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears.

the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water

This idea struck me: the army is the body : I am the brain. Thinking is my fighting. (15 May 1940)

It seems that a profound, impartial, and absolutely just opinion of our fellow-creatures is utterly unknown.....

Because it is a thousand pities never to say what one feels, he thought...

There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but....

Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to....

This susceptibility to impressions had been his undoing, no doubt. Still at his age he had, like a boy....

Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse....