My top Virginia Woolf quotes

1. “Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.”

2. “Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

3. “It is no use trying to sum people up.”

4. “...But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful...”

5. “Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.”

6. “I am rooted, but I flow.”

7. “I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.”

8. “Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us. To gallop intemperately; fall on the sand tired out; to feel the earth spin; to have - positively - a rush of friendship for stones and grasses, as if humanity were over, and as for men and women, let them go hang - there is no getting over the fact that this desire seizes up pretty often.”

9. “I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer? "

10. “Arrange whatever pieces come your way.”

11.“I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married”

12. “There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

13. “Nothing has really happened unless it's been described [in words].”