... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The spirit of peace descended like a cloud from heaven, for if the spirit of peace dwells anywhere, it is in the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“it being her experience that the religious ecstasy made people callous (so did causes); dulled their feelings” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Consider how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings, how astonishing, when the lights of health go down,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner than to assume that of Gods there is only one, and of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“There was something solemn in it- but love and religion would destroy that, whatever it was, the privacy of the soul.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Why, from the very windows, even in the dusk, you see a swelling run through the street, an aspiration, as with arms… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking?—the entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It was not Orlando who spoke, but the spirit of the age. But whichever it was, nobody answered it.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing-room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are! For now that… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You would get longer livelier and more frequent letters from me, if it weren't for the Christian religion. How that bell tolling… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Translating this to the spiritual regions as their wont is, the poets sang beautifully how roses fade and petals fall. The moment… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“And the supreme mystery was simply this: here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I have had a most shameful and distressing interview with poor dear Tom Eliot, who may be called dead to us all… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are! — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“There they are. The extreme definiteness with which they stand, now a brilliant white, again yellow, and in some lights red, imposes… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the… — 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
