Virginia Woolf Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Virginia Woolf quotes, Virginia Woolf sayings, and Virginia Woolf proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life. Virginia Woolf
It seemed ... such nonsense -- inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that. Virginia Woolf
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others. Virginia Woolf
You cannot find peace by avoiding life. Virginia Woolf
One cannot think well, love well and sleep well if one has not dined well. Virginia Woolf
Arrange whatever pieces come your way. Virginia Woolf
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size. Virginia Woolf
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. Virginia Woolf
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others. Virginia Woolf
I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure. Virginia Woolf
If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people. Virginia Woolf
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others. Virginia Woolf
I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street. Virginia Woolf
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. Virginia Woolf
So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea. Virginia Woolf
Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action. Virginia Woolf
I have lost friends, some by death…others by sheer inability to cross the street. Virginia Woolf
Lighthouses are endlessly suggestive signifiers of both human isolation and our ultimate connectedness to each other. Virginia Woolf
Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles. Virginia Woolf
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
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. Virginia Woolf
Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces. Virginia Woolf
Language is wine upon the lips. Virginia Woolf
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. Virginia Woolf
Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night. Virginia Woolf
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. Virginia Woolf
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. Virginia Woolf
Only longing can fill with more of itself. Virginia Woolf
But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality has no such simple effect upon the mind of man. Virginia Woolf
Theories then are dangerous things. Virginia Woolf