“And then she said to herself, brandishing her sword at life, nonsense.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What did it mean to her, this thing she called life? Oh, it was very queer.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“...made up, as one makes up the better part of life...making oneself up; ...creating an exquisite amusement...” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I took the print of life not outwardly, but inwardly upon the raw, the white, the unprotected fibre. I am clouded and… — 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
The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained --… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“There's just this….an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I will achieve in my life - Heaven grant that it be not long - some gigantic amalgamation between the two discrepancies… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The inner life has its soft and gentle beauty; an abstract formlessness as well as a subtle charm. I often consider myself… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. "Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Now to sum it up,' said Bernard. 'Now to explain to you the meaning of my life. Since we do not know… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the… — 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;… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“And of course she enjoyed life immensely. It was her nature to enjoy. Anyhow there was no bitterness in her; none of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“and yet nobody of course was more dependent upon others (he buttoned his waistcoat); it had been his undoing. He could not… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It proves that one's life is not confined to one's body and what one says or does; one is living all the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“... before parting that night we agreed that the objects of life were to produce good people and good books.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I am very tolerant. I am not a moralist. I have too great a sense of the shortness of life and its… — 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
Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills -… — 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
“In all the books love is one of the great facts that mould human life. But it is a catastrophe: it happens… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Thinking was going on then as now; and thinking after all, is the flesh and blood of life; action seemed to her… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Leonard Woolf: If I didn't know you better I'd call this ingratitude. Virginia Woolf: I am ungrateful? You call ME ungrateful? My… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Life is difficult; facts uncompromising; and the passage to that fabled land where our brightest hopes are extinguished, our frail barks founder… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The whole of life did not consist in going to bed with a woman, he thought, returning to Scott and Balzac, to… — 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
![“What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the truth. . . . When one so exposes it [integrity] and sees it come to life one exclaims in rapture, But this is what I have always felt and known and desired! And one boils over with…” quote by Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1c4/virginia-woolf-49_authors_what-one-means-by-integrity-in-the-case_1159124.jpg)
