Happiness Quotes by Virginia Woolf

If it were now to die, 'twere now to be most happy.

— Virginia Woolf

To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

— Virginia Woolf

“Happy the mother who bears, happier still the biographer who records the life of such a one!”

— Virginia Woolf

My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.

— Virginia Woolf

“But he could not tell her he loved her. He held her hand. Happiness is this, he thought.”

— Virginia Woolf

Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.

— Virginia Woolf

Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.

— Virginia Woolf

I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.

— Virginia Woolf

Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in…

— Virginia Woolf

“The world is crammed with delightful things. I think young people make such a mistake about that — not letting themselves be…

— Virginia Woolf

“What they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.”

— Virginia Woolf

“The sweetness of this content overflowing runs down the walls of my mind, and liberates understanding.”

— Virginia Woolf

“For the philosopher is right who says that nothing is thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy”

— Virginia Woolf

“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

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.

— Virginia Woolf

She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she…

— Virginia Woolf

No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so…

— Virginia Woolf

But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit;…

— Virginia Woolf

“Very gently and quietly, almost as if it were the blood singing in her veins, or the water of the stream running…

— Virginia Woolf

She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and…

— Virginia Woolf

“She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning…

— Virginia Woolf

“I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it; fame and missed it; love and not known it; life -…

— Virginia Woolf

“I remember one morning... getting up at dawn... there was such a sense of possibility! You know? That feeling? And... and I…

— Virgínia Woolf

...she felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the…

— Virginia Woolf

“...watching it with fascination, hypnotised, as if it were stroking with its silver fingers some sealed vessel in her brain whose bursting…

— Virginia Woolf

“He turned from the sight of human ignorance and human fate and the sea eating the ground we stand on, which, had…

— Virginia Woolf

“Hail! natural desire! Hail! happiness! divine happiness! and pleasure of all sorts, flowers and wine, though one fades and the other intoxicates;…

— Virginia Woolf

“Hail, happiness, then, and after happiness, hail not those dreams which bloat the sharp image as spotted mirrors do the face in…

— Virginia Woolf

“Quiet descended on her, calm, content, as her needle, drawing the silk smoothly to its gentle pause, collected the green folds together…

— Virginia Woolf

“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

“He had never felt so happy in the whole of his life! Without a word they made it up. They walked down…

— Virginia Woolf

The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for…

— Virginia Woolf

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

“Communication is health; communication is happiness. Communication, he muttered. 'What are you saying, Septimus?' Rezia asked, wild with terror, for he was…

— Virginia Woolf

“Nothing so cuts the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he…

— Virginia Woolf

Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts…

— Virginia Woolf

“This susceptibility to impressions had been his undoing, no doubt. Still at his age he had, like a boy or a girl…

— Virginia Woolf