“So the being grows rings; identity becomes robust. What was fiery and furtive like a fling of grain cast into the air… — 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
It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of… — 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
“Has the finger of death to be laid on the tumult of life from time to time lest it rend us asunder?… — 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
“There it lay in the early sunshine of spring. It looked a town rather than a house, but a town built, not… — 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
“It seemed now as if, touched by human penitence and all its toil, divine goodness had parted the curtain and displayed behind… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Life, it has been agreed by everyone whose opinion is worth consulting, is the only fit subject for novelist or biographer; life,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Habits gradually change the face of ones life as time changes one's physical face;& one does not know it.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“S úgy érezte, megint kettesben, szemtől szembe kerültek, ő maga s ellenfele, az élet.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
His eyes were bright, and, indeed, he scarcely knew whether they held dreams or realities...and in five minutes she had filled the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
some we know to be dead even though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through all… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience… — 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
