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Symbol suggests anything, animate or inanimate, which stands for something else beyond an idea conventionally associated with it. It combines an image with a concept that can be universal or private. Symbols increase the expressiveness of the language and enable the writer to convey what cannot be conveyed by the ordinary resources of language. Images and symbols are important because they give concrete meaning of the abstract ideas or concepts. Stream of consciousness novelist Virginia Woolf presents deep sensations and emotions fleeting through the three layers of human consciousness: conscious, sub-conscious and unconscious. She explores the inner lives of the characters and this exploration can be done only through symbols since the unconscious is by definition unknown and knowable only through the symbols. Assuming the images to be a major means of the expression of such feeling, this paper is concerned with the examination of a set of imagery in Jacob�s Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and The Waves � the four most important novels of Virginia Woolf. Hopefully in doing so, certain emotional thought of Mrs. Woolf will be perceived, showing her attitude to the body, a technological age, death, relationship and other factors relating to the human consciousness and process of living.