I’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I was fighting with Thoby on the lawn. We were pommelling each other with our fists. Just as I raised my fist… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I must be able to say, 'Percival, a ridiculous name'. At the same time let me tell you, men and women, hurrying… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said. But he never liked anyone who--our friends,' said Clarissa; and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“This susceptibility to impressions had been his undoing, no doubt. Still at his age he had, like a boy or a girl… — 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
