“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“to possess one single thing (it is Louis now) must waver, like the light in and out of the beech leaves; and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The sweetness of this content overflowing runs down the walls of my mind, and liberates understanding.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She did not know. She did not mind...She had a sense of being past everything, through everything, out of everything...-and one could… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But what might be written in the book which had rounded its edges off in his pocket, she did not know. What… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
... the random talk of people who have no chance of immortality and thus can speak their minds out has a setting,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Words... are the wildest, freest, most irresponsible, most unteachable of all things. Of course, you can catch them and sort them and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I sincerely hope I’ll never fathom you. You’re mystical, serene, intriguing; you enclose such charm within you. The lustre of your presence… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Purposely, perhaps, Mary did not agree with Ralph; she loved to feel her mind in conflict with his, and to be certain… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Literature is open to everybody. I refuse to allow you, Beadle though you are, to turn me off the grass. Lock up… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“One must own that there are certain books which can be read without the mind and without the heart, but still with… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“being an artist: "And this susceptibility of theirs is doubly unfortunate , I thought, returning again to my original enquiry into what… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I am clouded and bruised with the print of minds and faces and things so subtle that they have smell, colour, texture,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“He ran his mind over the things they had said, the random, unnecessary things which had eddied round and round and used… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl. — 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
