Virginia Woolf Quotes

Biography: Virginia Woolf is known for her pioneering contributions to modernist ... more Biography: Virginia Woolf is known for her pioneering contributions to modernist literature. Born in 1882, her seminal works include "Mrs. Dalloway" and "To the Lighthouse." Woolf's innovative narrative techniques and exploration of the inner lives of characters have left a lasting impact on 20th-century fiction. less

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the e""Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.""What does the brain matter compared with the heart?""The reward of living was to be in the thick of the street,""It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged trut""The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.""I am actually a very calm person; I live simply and quietly.""To enjoy freedom, we have to control ourselves.""Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.""Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.""I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.""I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.""The only advice that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.""Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.""There's something about the genuineness of that moment that is eternal.""I am not one of those who believe that taking drugs produces a permanent bettering of the human mind. Every great writer, every genuine artist, has had the experience of being intoxicated by language.""Outside the trees dragged their leaves like nets through the depths of the air; the sound of water was in the room and through the waves came the voices of children entering the house.""In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.""To the Lighthouse was then an evocation of childhood; it was also an inquisition into the nature of reality.""For if life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?"

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