10 Best Virginia Woolf Quotes

Producer: Mehak Pal Editor: Aparna Singh September 17, 2024

Born in London, Virginia Woolf was best known for her novels namely Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927). Here are some of the best Virginia Woolf quotes you must know.

- A Room of One’s Own

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

- A Room of One’s Own

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.

- Between the Acts

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

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.

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

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

- A Room of One’s Own

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, or 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 forever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

- The Waves

Nothing has really happened until it has been described.

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