Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began? — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The strongest natures, when they are influenced, submit the most unreservedly; it is perhaps a sign of their strength.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Sitting down on a bank to wait for my train, I thought then how we surrender, how we submit to the stupidity… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us. To gallop intemperately; fall on the sand tired… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I should need to be a herd of elephants, I thought, and a wilderness of spiders, desperately referring to the animals that… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
But Sasha who after all had no English blood in her but was from Russia where the sunsets are longer, the dawns… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I lie back. It seems as if the whole world were flowing and curving — on the earth the trees, in the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“There was silence. Then as if to refresh the power of destruction, the wind rose and the waves rose and through the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth. Roll up that tender air and the plant dies, the colour… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“And of course she enjoyed life immensely. It was her nature to enjoy. Anyhow there was no bitterness in her; none of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I am alone. They have gone into the house for breakfast, and I am left standing by the wall among the flowers.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“There were mountains; there were valleys; there were streams. She climbed the mountains; roamed the valleys; sat on the banks of streams…when,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Sex and its nature might well attract doctors and biologists; but what was surprising and difficult of explanation was the fact that… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I went from one to the other holding my sorrow - no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“How then does light return to the world after the eclipse of the sun? Miraculously. Frailly. In thin stripes. It hangs like… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I remember I would not stand still; I would not stop being perplexed by everything that spontaneously attracted me or caught my… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Hail! natural desire! Hail! happiness! divine happiness! and pleasure of all sorts, flowers and wine, though one fades and the other intoxicates;… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“He wondered why on earth he had asked these people, and what one really expected to get from bunching human beings up… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“One holds every phrase, every scene to the light as one reads - for Nature seems, very oddly, to have provided us… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“As summer neared, as the evening lengthened there came to the wakeful, the hopeful, walking the beach, stirring the pool, imaginations of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It seems comfortable to sink down on a sofa in a corner, to look, to listen. Then it happens that two figures… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What could be more absurd? Yet it is nature's folly, not ours. When she set about her chief masterpiece, the making of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“so that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Nature, who has played so many queer tricks upon us, making us so unequally of clay and diamonds, of rainbow and granite,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But if sleep it was, of what nature, we can scarcely refrain from asking, are such sleeps as these? Are they remedial… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Nature, who has played so many queer tricks upon us, making us so unequally of clay and diamonds...” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For ourselves, who are ordinary men and women, let us return thanks to Nature for her bounty by using every one of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play. — 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
