“Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mountain-top is covered… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“in this case, a mother, noted for her beauty, might be reduced to a purple shadow... (Tansley to Lily on her painting… — 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
The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Perhaps this is the strongest pleasure known to me. It is the rapture I get when in writing I seem to be… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For the philosopher is right who says that nothing is thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“tried to be honest, as if honesty were part of my philosophy, and” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Fear no more," said Clarissa. Fear no more the heat o' the sun; for the shock of Lady Bruton asking Richard to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life, but for… — 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
