Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The immense success of our life is, I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The best thing to do against life was to fold the paper so that it made a perfect square, crisp, thick, impervious… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Life's what you see in people's eyes; life's what they learn, and, having learnt it, never, though they seek to hide it,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For the reading of these books seems to perform a curious couching operation on the senses; one sees more intensely afterwards; the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semitransparent envelope surrounding us from the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance;… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“the whole of life, its masters, its adventurers, then appeared in long ranks of magnificent human beings behind me; and I was… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What were the conditions in which women lived, I asked myself; for fiction, imaginative work that is, is not dropped like a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws… — 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… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What a scraping paring affair it is to be sure! The wonder is that I've any clothes on my back, that I… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; but a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Lord, how unutterably disgusting life is! What dirty tricks it plays us, one moment free; the next, this. Here we are among… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“To upset everything every 3 or 4 years is my notion of a happy life.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Often I feel the different aspects of life bursting my mind asunder.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“We insist, it seems, on living. Then again, indifference descends.” — 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
