Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves. — 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
“The best thing to do against life was to fold the paper so that it made a perfect square, crisp, thick, impervious… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was… — 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
“...in order to make you understand, to give you my life, I must tell you a story.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger? — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Like the pulse of a perfect heart, life struck straight through the streets.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the… — 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
To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Clarissa was really shocked. This a Christian - this woman! This woman had taken her daughter from her! She in touch with… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go… — 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
“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
“Lord, how unutterably disgusting life is! What dirty tricks it plays us, one moment free; the next, this. Here we are among… — 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
“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
Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working… — 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
“For the vision of a novelist is both complex and specialised; complex, because behind his characters and apart from them must stand… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In certain favorable moods, memories -- what one has forgotten -- come to the top. Now if this is so, is it… — 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
There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death… — 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
“Happy the mother who bears, happier still the biographer who records the life of such a one!” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life. — 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
“When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.” — 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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
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
“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
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“For one's children so often gave one's own perceptions a little thrust forwards.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
