Virginia Woolf Quotes
English modernist writer, author of Mrs Dalloway and A Room of One's Own. Woolf's luminous prose explored consciousness, time, and women's inner lives. Below are 15 of the most loved Virginia Woolf quotes, chosen from across their works and letters. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.
Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
Books are the mirrors of the soul.
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
There is no denying the wild horse in us.
You can't find peace by avoiding life.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
The mind receives a myriad impressions — trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.