A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. ” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Oh and I thought, as i was dressing, how interesting it would be to describe the approach of age, and the gradual… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“now that one was mature then, said Peter, one could watch, one could understand, and one did not lose the power of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Yes, our old age is not going to be sunny orchard drowse. By shutting down the fire curtain, though, I find I… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Altogether, the task of estimating the length of human life is beyond our capacity, for directly we say that it is ages… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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