“Leonard, always the years between us, always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“And the supreme mystery was simply this: here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“There was something solemn in it- but love and religion would destroy that, whatever it was, the privacy of the soul.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The journey is everything. Most necessary of all, but rarest good fortune, we should try to find some man of our own… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But love...it's only an illusion. A story one makes up in one's mind about another person. And one knows all the time… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“There can be no doubt, I thought, pushing aside the newspaper, that our mean lives, unsightly as they are, put on splendour… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
What could be more serious than the love of man for woman, what more commanding, more impressive, bearing in its bosom the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Vita has been twice. She is doomed to go to Persia; and I mind the thought so much (thinking to lose sight… — 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
“Yet, she said to herself, from the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if… — 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
“I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it; fame and missed it; love and not known it; life -… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Life, it has been agreed by everyone whose opinion is worth consulting, is the only fit subject for novelist or biographer; life,… — 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
“Mr Bankes expected her to answer. And she was about to say something criticizing Mrs Ramsay, how she was alarming, too, in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“He had never felt so happy in the whole of his life! Without a word they made it up. They walked down… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“ne cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“(But he could not bring himself to say he loved her; not in so many words.)” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life. — 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! — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It was some such feeling of completeness perhaps which, ten years ago, standing almost where she stood now, had made her say… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said. But he never liked anyone who--our friends,' said Clarissa; and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Could loving, as people called it, make her and Mrs. Ramsay one? for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is so beautiful, so exciting, this love, that I tremble on the verge of it, and offer, quite out of my… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For here again, we come to a dilemma. Different though the sexes are, they intermix. In every human being a vacillation from… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“and rocks and creaks and moans in the eternal breeze. Through all ages — when the pavement was grass, when it was… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“We became six people at a table in Hampton Court. We rose and walked together down the avenue. In the thin, the… — 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
