This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Such fools we are, she thought, crossing Victoria Street. For Heaven only knows why one loves it so, how one sees it… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She had, it seems, no difficulty in sustaining the different parts, for her sex changed so far more frequently than those who… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life, but for… — 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
“I like her. She makes life interesting. She, herself, is interesting, I suppose. She talks right from the heart. I appreciate her… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Yet she said to herself, from the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreathes heaped and roses; and if… — 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
“Joy's life in the doing (..) I mean it's the writing, not the being read that excites me.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But Orlando was a woman — Lord Palmerston had just proved it. And when we are writing the life of a woman,… — 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
“Life for both sexes — and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement — is arduous, difficult, a perpetual… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“(W)hy is poetry wholly an elderly taste? When I was twenty I could not for the life of me read Shakespeare for… — 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
“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
She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Life for most people compels the exercise of the lower gifts and wastes the precious ones, until it forces us to agree… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Thus the British Empire came into existence; and thus - for there is no stopping damp; it gets into the inkpot as… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“We insist, it seems, on living. Then again, indifference descends.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole… — 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
