Top 86 Quotes by 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.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

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.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.

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

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

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.