Quotes by Woolf, Virginia

Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him b >>

Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death! >>

When a subject is highly controversial... one cannot hope to tell the >>

Quotations about Innocence

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied >>

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets >>

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and th >>

I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.

Woolf, Virginia