Quotes by 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.””

“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.””

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?””

“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.””

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

“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.””

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

“There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.””

“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.””

“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.””

“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.””

“I am rooted, but I flow.””

“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.””