Virginia Woolf Quotes

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

I'm not even sure who I really am sometimes.

No matter where you go, you always see yourself in the rearview mirror.

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.

I'm going to pull myself together for a while and think-try to determine what character of a woman I am; for, candidly, I don't know. By all the codes which I am acquainted with, I am a devilishly wicked specimen of the sex. But some way I can't convince myself that I am. I must think about it.

I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.

There’s just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It’s not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe it’s that when you gaze into your own eyes, you don’t see what you wish to see—or glimpse something that you wish weren’t there.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

There are times I can't even figure myself out.

I look in the mirror, and what I see is someone who has never grown up - a crashing sentimentalist who alternates between great heights and black depths.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

It feels weird to say there's more to me than that, like I'm being overdramatic, and a tear rolls down my cheek. But, no - I do like I feel like there's more to me than just baseball.

I don't know how happy I was when I met Sting. I always had this difficulty of not really knowing who I was.

People seem to know more about me than I do.

I always have a hard time describing myself.

We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.

If you want to know what you look like, look into a mirror. If you want to know how you think, you should write