“I fear I shall be a clinger to the outsides of words all my life.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death… — 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
“Often I feel the different aspects of life bursting my mind asunder.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
With my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon… — 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
“Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“...in order to make you understand, to give you my life, I must tell you a story.” — 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
“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
“I am obsessed at nights with the idea of my own worthlessness, and if it were only to turn a light on… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Do you remember the lake?' she said, in an abrupt voice, under the pressure of an emotion which caught her heart, made… — 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
“Once, long ago, she had caught salmon freely: now, quick to minister to the craving which lit her husband’s eye so oilily… — 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
“When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless... Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading,… — 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
