“Here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. The lamp in the spine does not light… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For I am more selves than Neville thinks. We are not as simple as our friends would have us to meet our… — virginia woolf Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, let us abolish the ticking of time’s clock with one blow. Come closer.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Septimus has been working too hard" - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It was one of those unclassified affections of which there are so many.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I've cared for heaps of people, but not to marry them' she said. 'I suppose I'm too fastidious. all my life I've… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“...on their faces an expression like the letters of a legend, written around the base of a statue praising duty, gratitude, fidelity,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“That silence is more profound after noise still wants the confirmation of science. But that loneliness is more apparent directly after one… — 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… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We seem to be riding on the top of the highest mast of the tallest ship; and yet at the same time… — 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
“Why did he sit so near and keep his eye on her? Why did they not have done with this searching and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I know what loves are trembling into fire; how jealousy shoots its green flashes hither and thither; how intricately love crosses love;… — 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
“The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Love had a thousand shapes. There might be lovers whose gift it was to choose out the elements of things and place… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For Love, to which we may now return, has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For Love, for which we may now return, has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She left the room without looking in the glass. From which we deduce the fact, he said to himself, as if he… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing-room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are! For now that… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you.” — 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
“For one's children so often gave one's own perceptions a little thrust forwards.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“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 Image
