Moments Quotes by Virginia Woolf

But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment.

— Virginia Woolf

Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.

— Virginia Woolf

These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.

— Virginia Woolf

what she loved: life, London, this moment of june.

— Virginia Woolf

Do not move, do not go. Sink within this moment. Hold it for ever.

— Virginia Woolf

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but…

— Virginia Woolf

No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and…

— Virginia Woolf

Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

— Virginia Woolf

Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.

— Virginia Woolf

It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down…

— Virginia Woolf

For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs…

— Virginia Woolf

I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only…

— Virginia Woolf

What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like…

— Virginia Woolf

Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we…

— Virginia Woolf

... the random talk of people who have no chance of immortality and thus can speak their minds out has a setting,…

— Virginia Woolf

With her foot on the threshold she waited a moment longer in a scene which was vanishing even as she looked, and…

— Virginia Woolf

With my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon…

— Virginia Woolf

It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down…

— Virginia Woolf

We seem to be riding on the top of the highest mast of the tallest ship; and yet at the same time…

— Virginia Woolf

Yes, yes, I'm coming. Right up the top of the house. One moment I'll linger. How the mud goes round in the…

— Virginia Woolf

Rhoda comes now, having slipped in while we were not looking. She must have made a tortuous course, taking cover now behind…

— Virginia Woolf

One could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object…

— Virginia Woolf

Now to sum it up,' said Bernard. 'Now to explain to you the meaning of my life. Since we do not know…

— Virginia Woolf

The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features…

— Virginia Woolf

...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the…

— Virginia Woolf

Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story?…

— Virginia Woolf

I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will…

— Virginia Woolf

In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men…

— Virginia Woolf