Virginia Woolf

We are no longer quite ourselves.

She had a profound and reverent passion for the truth.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be a woman. I am so glad I am not a woman.

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.

Anonymity is a great comfort.

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

The great revelation of my life was that I am not a man.

I enjoy almost everything. I am happy sometimes for a whole day.

Really, I don't like human beings at all, except as a general proposition.

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 edge of the cliff.

It is not the arriving at a place, but the journey itself, that is the most important part.

The world is a work of art, and I am its creator.

I am in the mood to be a rebel and to be rude.

I am not an optimist. I am not a pessimist. I am a realist.

The mind is an enchanting thing.

Why do we always think of the past as so much more beautiful than the present?

I want to be a writer. I want to be a great writer.

The truth is, I am not a very good person.

I am sick of this world. I want to go to another.

It is a curious fact that the more we know, the more we are aware of our ignorance.