If you’ve ever read or known of any of Virginia Woolf’s writings and quotes, then you know for certain how courageous she is with the pen. A woman whose name is to be and will be remembered for centuries to come.
The way Virginia Woolf expresses her deepest desires, emotions and depths through her poetry and quotes is something you simply can’t miss out on. The flare she brings to the literature world with her nonchalant and bold attitude as a woman is truly one of a kind.
As you scroll through these Virginia Woolf quotes we have collected for you below, we hope that her expressive and passionate poetry will help you identify and act on your emotions in a healthier manner. After all, we’re only human beings and emotions are a part of us.
Related: Much like Virginia Woolf’s quotes, Elizabeth Gilbert’s quotes are like a warm embrace of assurance and a light shower of wisdom – there when you need it most. Here are 30+ Of The Most Empowering Quotes By Elizabeth Gilbert.
Here are 30+ Virginia Woolf Quotes That Will Help You Understand Your Emotions Better:
1. “I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
2. “As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
3. “The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
4. “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
5. “How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart?”
6. “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
7. “Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
8. “Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.”
9. “A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.”
10. “How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
11. “What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.”
12. “I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.”
13. “All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
14. “When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.”
15. “In case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.”
16. “Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.”
17. “I have lost friends, some by death…others by sheer inability to cross the street.”
18. “To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is…at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away…”
19. “Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.”
20. “I belong to quick, futile moments of intense feeling. Yes, I belong to moments. Not to people.”
21. “So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.”
22. “He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.”
23. “I will not be “famous,” “great.” I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one’s self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.”
24. “I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”
25. “I am rooted, but I flow.”
26. “I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual”
27. “Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.”
28. “I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. ”
29. “Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.”
30. “What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”
31. “I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.”
32. “It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.”
33. “And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees
and changing leaves.”
34. “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.”
35. “I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
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