Quotes from Virginia Woolf
It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
— Virginia Woolf
Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.
— Virginia Woolf
There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death.
— Virginia Woolf
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
— Virginia Woolf
I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices
— Virginia Woolf
In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows.
— Virginia Woolf
The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.
— Virginia Woolf
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
— Virginia Woolf
I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
— Virginia Woolf
Love had a thousand shapes.
— Virginia Woolf
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.
— Virginia Woolf
This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
— Virginia Woolf