“Because it is a thousand pities never to say what one feels, he thought...” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames. It is I who am blocking the way, he thought. Was… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Looked at again and again half consciously by a mind thinking of something else, any object mixes itself so profoundly with the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“the thought process: "It swayed, minute after minute, hither and thither among the reflections and the weeds, letting the water lift it… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Nothing need be said; nothing could be said. There it was, all round them. It partook, she felt, carefully helping Mr. Bankes… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mountain-top is covered… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I feel that I have had a blow; but it is not, as I thought as a child, simply a blow from… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“There it was before her - life. Life: she thought but she did not finish her thought. She took a look at… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Here is nature once more at her old game of self-preservation. This train of thought, she perceives, is threatening mere waste of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Life, it has been agreed by everyone whose opinion is worth consulting, is the only fit subject for novelist or biographer; life,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It was a splendid mind. For if thought is like the keyboard of a piano, divided into so many notes, or like… — 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
