“How was one to lasso her mind, and tether it to this minute, unimportant spot?” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But none speaks with a single voice. None with a voice free from the old vibrations. Always I hear corrupt murmurs; the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The tumult of the present seems like a elegy for past youth and past summers, and there rose in her mind a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“As a cloud crosses the sun, silence falls on London; and falls on the mind. Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how many different people are… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“she heard some voice saying she couldn't paint, saying she couldn't create, as if she were caught up in one of those… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“... it is fatal for anyone who writes to think of their sex. It is fatal to be a man or woman… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I, who am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement, make this mark, waiting for some… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Men felt a chill in their hearts; a damp in their minds. In a desperate effort to snuggle their feelings into some… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence.’ That will be useful.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Somehow the fact that only three or four hundred years ago these skeletons had been men with their way to make in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I need someone whose mind falls like a chopper on a block; to whom the pitch of absurdity is sublime, and a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“And if it be true that it is one of the tokens of the fully developed mind that it does not think… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The mind is certainly a very mysterious organ, I reflected, drawing my head in from the window, about which nothing whatever is… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The mind of man works with strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement... — 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