Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf English novelist (1882 - 1941)


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- The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

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- Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

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- For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

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- Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Virginia Woolf - Diary, 17 February 1922
- I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.

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- Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.

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- If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

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- It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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- Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.

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- I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Virginia Woolf -
- For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

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- You can not gain peace by avoiding life.

Virginia Woolf - The Waves (1931)
- I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.