The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“in this case, a mother, noted for her beauty, might be reduced to a purple shadow... (Tansley to Lily on her painting… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Above all, you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Beauty, the world seemed to say. And as if to prove it (scientifically) wherever he looked at the houses, at the railings,… — 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
Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind's… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Through the open window the voice of the beauty of the world came murmuring, too softly to hear exactly what it said… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“As for the beauty of women, it is like the light on the sea, never constant to a single wave. They all… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Emerged from the tentative ways, the obscurities and dazzle of youth, we look straight in front of us, ready for what may… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The inner life has its soft and gentle beauty; an abstract formlessness as well as a subtle charm. I often consider myself… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“He was afraid he did not understand beauty apart form human beings.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“...(for the setting of her beauty was always that - hasty, but apt)...” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty - it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life - froze… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I see the mountains in the sky; the great clouds; and the moon; I have a great and astonishing sense of something… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“There they are. The extreme definiteness with which they stand, now a brilliant white, again yellow, and in some lights red, imposes… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“So, thought Septimus, looking up, they are signalling to me. Not indeed in actual words; that is, he could not read the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It’s on the field, it’s on the pane, it’s in the sky — beauty; and I can’t get at it; I can’t… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Not that she was striking; not beautiful at all; there was nothing picturesque about her; she never said anything specially clever; there… — 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
