Quotes by Woolf, Virginia

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more tha >>

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman >>

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to d >>

Quotations about Introspection

Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real you nev >>

The terrible fluidity of self-revelation. >>

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere -- it >>

But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.

Woolf, Virginia