Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She felt very young;at the same time unspeakably aged.She sliced like a knife through everything;at the same time was outside,looking on...far out… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To survive, each sentence must have, at its heart, a little spark of fire, and this, whatever the risk, the novelist must… — 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
For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Sir, I would trust you with my heart. Moreover, we have left our bodies in the banqueting hall. Those on the turf… — 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
Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She had the oddest sense of being herself invisible; unseen; unknown; there being no more marrying, no more having of children now,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“More people were in love with her than with any one I’ve ever known. She had that power—she enjoyed things. She wasn’t… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of her death was not that it made one, now and then and very intensely, unhappy. It was that it… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She had never seen the sense of cutting people up, as Clarissa Dalloway did — cutting them up and sticking them together… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Her thoughts became mysteriously tightened and strung up as if a piano tuner had put his key in her back and stretched… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Dalloway raised her hand to her eyes, and, as the maid shut the door to, and she heard the swish of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She did not know. She did not mind...She had a sense of being past everything, through everything, out of everything...-and one could… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She [did feel] made aware of the pettiness of some part of her, and of human relations how flawed they are, how… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
[She was singing] a senseless singsong, so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It flattered her, where she was most susceptible of flattery, to think how, wound about in their hearts, however long they lived… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that;… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair,… — 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
“She would not have cared to confess how infinitely she preferred the exactitude, the star-like impersonality, of figures to the confusion, agitation,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She had a sense of being past everything, through everything, out of everything, as she helped the soup. as if there was… — 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
Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She felt as if things were moving past her as she lay stretched on the bed under the single sheet. But it’s… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was,… — 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
![“She [did feel] made aware of the pettiness of some part of her, and of human relations how flawed they are, how despicable, how self-seeking, at their best.” quote by Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e8/virginia-woolf-49_human-relations_she-did-feel-made-aware-of-the-pettiness_2217161.jpg)
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