...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I belong to quick, futile moments of intense feeling. Yes, I belong to moments. Not to people.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I'm fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It's… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“If I could catch the feeling, I would: the feeling of the singing of the real world; the sense that comes to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I was fighting with Thoby on the lawn. We were pommelling each other with our fists. Just as I raised my fist… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“He sighed profoundly, and flung himself - there was a passion in his movements which deserves the word - on the earth… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“…Sometimes this constraint would be felt by the whole tribe, numbering some dozens of grown men and women. It sprang from the… — 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
