How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger? — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake? — 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
Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I went from one to the other holding my sorrow - no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
... why do people who live in the country always give themselves such airs? — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I see through most people; I'm hardly ever wrong. I see at once what they've got in them. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
...she felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we… — 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 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
