Significant Quotes by Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf has been a source of inspiration and motivation to millions through her candid openness with her life struggles and depression. We’ve carefully curated a handful of quotes in hopes that they help bring insight into any struggles you might be dealing with at the moment.

“I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.” – Virginia Woolf

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” — Virginia Woolf

“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of – to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone.” — Virginia Woolf

“I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.” — Virginia Woolf

“Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes.” — Virginia Woolf

“Tears rose slowly in her eyes and stood there, brimming but contained. The tears of some profound emotion, happiness, grief, renunciation; an emotion so complex in its nature that to express it was impossible.” — Virginia Woolf

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much.” — Virginia Woolf

“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.” — Virginia Woolf

“Oh, this is pain, this is anguish! I faint, I fail. Now my body thaws; I am unsealed, I am incandescent.” — Virginia Woolf

“Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?” — Virginia Woolf

We hope these quotes by Virginia Woolf have served in some way to help ease your pain, loneliness, disappointment, and struggles.

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Another great resource on Virginia Woolf can be found on the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain website.