I am the guardian of the sleeping fawn; the snow is dear…

Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

— Virginia Woolf

“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

“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

“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

Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

— Virginia Woolf

“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

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

A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

— Virginia Woolf

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

“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

“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.”

— Virginia Woolf

“what a luxury to be alone once more,”

— Virginia Woolf

“...a woman writing thinks back through her mothers.”

— Virginia Woolf

“For one's children so often gave one's own perceptions a little thrust forwards.”

— Virginia Woolf

“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