Whenever I think of Virginia Woolf, I always imagine her cozied up in her armchair, a pen in her hand, crafting words that were way ahead of her time. From writing about mental health to championing feminism, she is a modernist literary icon whose legacy is simply unmatched. So, I can’t wait to share with you 10 of Woolf’s quotes that offer a glimpse into her literary brilliance. Enjoy.
1. “When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?”
― Night and Day (1919)
2. “I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”
― The Waves (1931)
3. “And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.”
― To the Lighthouse (1927)
4. “As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
― Three Guineas (1938)
5. “It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.”
― Mrs Dalloway (1925)
6. “As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
― Orlando: A Biography (1928)
7. “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Between the Acts (1941)
8. “The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.”
― Jacob’s Room (1922)
9. “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
― A Room of One’s Own (1929)
10. “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.”
― To the Lighthouse (1927)
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