“She felt somehow very like him—the young man who had killed himself.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
scarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle; the vast majority of birds and beasts… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Men felt a chill in their hearts; a damp in their minds. In a desperate effort to snuggle their feelings into some… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In certain favorable moods, memories -- what one has forgotten -- come to the top. Now if this is so, is it… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character - her characters are vigorous and elementary; not for comedy - hers… — 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
