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
“Ügylet bonyolítódik, ő áll az egyik oldalon, az élet a másikon, s ezen a csereüzleten mindig is ő akart nyerni; olykor elbeszélgettek… — 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
“And indeed, it cannot be denied that the most successful practitioners of life, often unknown people by the way, somehow contrive to… — 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
“Like the pulse of a perfect heart, life struck straight through the streets.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It’s something useless, sudden, violent; something that costs a life; red, blue, purple; a spirit; a splash … free from taint, dependence,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life. — 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
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
Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“My belief is that if we live another century or so — I am talking of the common life which is the… — 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
“For one day as I leant over a gate that led into a field, the rhythm stopped: the rhymes and the hummings,… — 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
“There it was before her - life. Life: she thought but she did not finish her thought. She took a look at… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“As a matter of fact, this effort at discipline had been helped by the interests of a difficult profession, but the old… — 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
“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
