“The sweetness of this content overflowing runs down the walls of my mind, and liberates understanding.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Quiet descended on her, calm, content, as her needle, drawing the silk smoothly to its gentle pause, collected the green folds together… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Communication is health; communication is happiness. Communication, he muttered. 'What are you saying, Septimus?' Rezia asked, wild with terror, for he was… — 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
“I remember one morning... getting up at dawn... there was such a sense of possibility! You know? That feeling? And... and I… — Virgínia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Happy the mother who bears, happier still the biographer who records the life of such a one!” — 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
“Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck between the pages. And the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“He had never felt so happy in the whole of his life! Without a word they made it up. They walked down… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The world is crammed with delightful things. I think young people make such a mistake about that — not letting themselves be… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it; fame and missed it; love and not known it; life -… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Very gently and quietly, almost as if it were the blood singing in her veins, or the water of the stream running… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For the philosopher is right who says that nothing is thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Hail! natural desire! Hail! happiness! divine happiness! and pleasure of all sorts, flowers and wine, though one fades and the other intoxicates;… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“He turned from the sight of human ignorance and human fate and the sea eating the ground we stand on, which, had… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit;… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But he could not tell her he loved her. He held her hand. Happiness is this, he thought.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“...watching it with fascination, hypnotised, as if it were stroking with its silver fingers some sealed vessel in her brain whose bursting… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Nothing so cuts the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“This susceptibility to impressions had been his undoing, no doubt. Still at his age he had, like a boy or a girl… — 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
...she felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Hail, happiness, then, and after happiness, hail not those dreams which bloat the sharp image as spotted mirrors do the face in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves. — 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
