“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
I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“He felt the need for something which he could attach his floating heart to; the heart that tugged at his side; the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She felt very young, at the same time unspeakably aged. She sliced like a knife through everything, at the same time was… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For the truth is ... that human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“...I thought at last that it was time to roll up the crumpled skin of the day, with its arguments and its… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For how would you like to be shut up for a whole month at a time, and possibly more in stormy weather,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“[W]e cease to be soldiers in the army of the upright; we become deserters. They march to battle. We float with the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“How, in so short a time, she had passed from intoxication to disgust we will only seek to explain by supposing that… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Is it not possible that the accent falls a little differently, that the moment of importance came before or after, that, if… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She felt very young;at the same time unspeakably aged.She sliced like a knife through everything;at the same time was outside,looking on...far out… — 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
