Virginia Woolf Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

15 Famous Quotes by Virginia Woolf
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“In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.”
Attention Quotes
“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.”
Cute friendship Quotes
“In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.”
Memories Quotes
“It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality”
Realism Quotes
“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.”
Awareness Quotes
“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
Fantasy Quotes
“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
Idleness Quotes
“If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?”
Intimacy Quotes
“As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”
Women Quotes
“What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.”
History Quotes
“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.”
Friendship Quotes
“I feel certain that I'm going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices.”
Famous last words Quotes
“Language is wine upon the lips.”
Language Quotes
“Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.”
Life Quotes
“The first duty of a lecturer--to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantlepiece forever.”
Teaching Quotes
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