Time Quotes by Virginia Woolf

“The moment was all; the moment was enough.”

— Virginia Woolf

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

— Virginia Woolf

All the time she writing the world had continued.

— Virginia Woolf

“Time flaps on the mast--”

— Virginia Woolf

Well, we must wait for the future to show.

— Virginia Woolf

what she loved: life, London, this moment of june.

— Virginia Woolf

“Meanwhile, let us abolish the ticking of time’s clock with one blow. Come closer.”

— Virginia Woolf

The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.

— Virginia Woolf

“The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best thing a future can be, I think.”

— Virginia Woolf

“I belong to quick, futile moments of intense feeling. Yes, I belong to moments. Not to people.”

— Virginia Woolf

Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.

— Virginia Woolf

for women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places;

— Virginia Woolf

I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.

— Virginia Woolf

“kindling all over with pleasure at the thought of the past.”

— Virginia Woolf

Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.

— Virginia Woolf

Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human…

— Virginia Woolf

“I should like to write four lines at a time, describing the same feeling, as a musician does; because it always seems…

— Virginia Woolf

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can…

— Virginia Woolf

Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known…

— Virginia Woolf

Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

— Virginia Woolf

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

— Virginia Woolf

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is…

— Virginia Woolf

So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat.…

— Virginia Woolf

“For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how many different people are…

— Virginia Woolf

“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To…

— Virginia Woolf

“she heard some voice saying she couldn't paint, saying she couldn't create, as if she were caught up in one of those…

— Virginia Woolf

We seem to be riding on the top of the highest mast of the tallest ship; and yet at the same time…

— Virginia Woolf

Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past,…

— Virginia Woolf

“It won't seem to you nonsense in ten years' time,' said Mrs. Hilbery. 'Believe me, Katharine, you'll look back on this these…

— Virginia Woolf

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative…

— Virginia Woolf

“Why then did she do it? She looked at the canvas, lightly scored with running lines. It would be hung in the…

— Virginia Woolf

“How, in so short a time, she had passed from intoxication to disgust we will only seek to explain by supposing that…

— Virginia Woolf

“If it is true that there are books written to escape from the present moment, and its meanness and its sordidity, it…

— Virginia Woolf

“I hate the small looking-glass on the stairs," said Jinny. "It shows our heads only; it cuts off our heads...So I skip…

— Virginia Woolf

“Such fools we are, she thought, crossing Victoria Street. For Heaven only knows why one loves it so, how one sees it…

— Virginia Woolf

“One could not but play for a moment with the thought of what might have happened if Charlotte Brontë had possessed say…

— Virginia Woolf

“To give a truthful account of London society at that or indeed at any other time, is beyond the powers of the…

— Virginia Woolf

For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat…

— Virginia Woolf

Do not move, do not go. Sink within this moment. Hold it for ever.

— Virginia Woolf

But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment.

— Virginia Woolf