Virginia Woolf

"In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you."

- Virginia Woolf

"In case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you."

- Virginia Woolf

"In case you ever foolishly forget, I am never not thinking of you."

- Virginia Woolf

"In case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you."

- Virginia Woolf

"She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through."

- Virginia Woolf

"Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you."

- Virginia Woolf

"I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older."

- Virginia Woolf

"Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more."

- Virginia Woolf

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."

- Virginia Woolf

"I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun."

- Virginia Woolf

"I am rooted, but I flow."

- Virginia Woolf

"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages."

- Virginia Woolf

"No need to hurry, no need to sparkle, no need to be anybody but oneself."

- Virginia Woolf

"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."

- Virginia Woolf

"In solitude, we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us."

- Virginia Woolf

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

- Virginia Woolf

"A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life."

- Virginia Woolf

"Although she continued to knit, and sat upright, it was thus that she felt herself; and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures. When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless."

- Virginia Woolf

"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."

- Virginia Woolf

"She extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through."

- Virginia Woolf

"Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money."

- Virginia Woolf

"I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a name and a place, and then perhaps, such is the human mind, I shall come to think it a duty, and disregard other duties for it."

- Virginia Woolf

"Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us."

- Virginia Woolf

"Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order."

- Virginia Woolf

"We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods."

- Virginia Woolf

"Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing."

- Virginia Woolf

"A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living."

- Virginia Woolf

"Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others."

- Virginia Woolf

"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt, that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."

- 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."

- Virginia Woolf

"Lighthouses are endlessly suggestive signifiers of both human isolation and our ultimate connectedness to each other."

- Virginia Woolf

"There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."

- Virginia Woolf

"Books are the mirrors of the soul."

- Virginia Woolf

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

- Virginia Woolf

"One cannot think well, love well, or sleep well, if one has not dined well."

- Virginia Woolf

"I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism."

- Virginia Woolf

"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past."

- Virginia Woolf

"And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves."

- Virginia Woolf

"In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us."

- Virginia Woolf

"The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments."

- Virginia Woolf

"There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in."

- Virginia Woolf

"The mirror reflects not only our physical features but also our emotions and state of mind."

- Virginia Woolf

"Whatever may be their use in civilised societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action."

- Virginia Woolf

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."

- Virginia Woolf

"The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."

- Virginia Woolf

"Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people."

- Virginia Woolf

"Autumn is the season of the soul."

- Virginia Woolf

"So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea."

- Virginia Woolf

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well."

- Virginia Woolf