Virginia Woolf citáty

„Pozoruj na okamih svoju bežnú myseľ v bežný deň.“

—  Virginia Woolf

„Pani Dallowayová povedala, že kúpi kvety sama.“

—  Virginia Woolf

„Nie je potrebné ponáhľať sa. Nie je potrebné žiariť. Nemusíte byť nikáým, okrem seba.“

—  Virginia Woolf

„Knihy sú zrkadlami duše.“

—  Virginia Woolf

„Umelec je koniec koncov osamelá bytosť.“

—  Virginia Woolf

„Je zvláštne, ako kreatívna sila privádza celý vesmír naraz do poriadku.“

—  Virginia Woolf

„Prečo sú ženy … oveľa zaujímavejšie pre mužov ako muži pre ženy?“

—  Virginia Woolf

„Odvážila by som si tipnúť, že Anon, ktorý napísal toľko básní bez toho, aby ich podpísal, bola často žena.“

—  Virginia Woolf

„Vyučovať a kázať asi presahuje ľudské schopnosti.“

—  Virginia Woolf

Prisudzované výroky

„Books are the mirrors of the soul.“

—  Virginia Woolf, kniha Between the Acts

Zdroj: Between the Acts

„The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.“

—  Virginia Woolf

„All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.“

—  Virginia Woolf, kniha Orlando: A Biography

Zdroj: Orlando

„A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.“

—  Virginia Woolf, kniha A Room of One's Own

Zdroj: A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 1, p. 4

„Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.“

—  Virginia Woolf

„I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual“

—  Virginia Woolf

„Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.“

—  Virginia Woolf, kniha The Waves

Zdroj: The Waves

„I am rooted, but I flow.“

—  Virginia Woolf

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

—  Virginia Woolf

"The Leaning Tower", lecture delivered to the Workers' Educational Association, Brighton (May 1940)
The Moment and Other Essays (1948)

„Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?“

—  Virginia Woolf