Top 86 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

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

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.