“One does not love a place the less because one has suffered in it.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Yes yes yes I do like you. I am afraid to write the stronger word.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“(But he could not bring himself to say he loved her; not in so many words.)” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“ne cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“And the supreme mystery was simply this: here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I know what loves are trembling into fire; how jealousy shoots its green flashes hither and thither; how intricately love crosses love;… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I am sitting up in bed: I am very very charming; and Vita is a dear old rough coated sheep dog: or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But love – don’t we all talk a great deal of nonsense about it? What does one mean? ... It’s only a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But this question of love... this falling in love with women. Take Sally Seton; her relation in the old days with Sally… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I have a perfectly romantic and no doubt untrue vision of you in my mind – stamping out the hops in a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“He bethought him with pride that he had always been called a scholar, and sneered at for his love of solitude and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“More people were in love with her than with any one I’ve ever known. She had that power—she enjoyed things. She wasn’t… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“We became six people at a table in Hampton Court. We rose and walked together down the avenue. In the thin, the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is so beautiful, so exciting, this love, that I tremble on the verge of it, and offer, quite out of my… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For here again, we come to a dilemma. Different though the sexes are, they intermix. In every human being a vacillation from… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“and rocks and creaks and moans in the eternal breeze. Through all ages — when the pavement was grass, when it was… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Could loving, as people called it, make her and Mrs. Ramsay one? for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life -… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“For one's children so often gave one's own perceptions a little thrust forwards.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share