“It seems comfortable to sink down on a sofa in a corner, to look, to listen. Then it happens that two figures… — 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
“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
“Has the finger of death to be laid on the tumult of life from time to time lest it rend us asunder?… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing. — 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
Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“He was not afraid. At every moment Nature signified by some laughing hint like that gold spot which went round the wall--there,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If people are highly successful in their profession they lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“And so they would go on talking or rather, understanding, which has become the main art of speech in an age when… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Yet, she said to herself, from the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Why then did she do it? She looked at the canvas, lightly scored with running lines. It would be hung in the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Habits gradually change the face of ones life as time changes one's physical face;& one does not know it.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. ... Women, then, have not… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Then one gave… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Books, she thought, grew of themselves. She never had time to read them. Alas! even the books that had been given her,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“He- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it- was… — 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
“We became six people at a table in Hampton Court. We rose and walked together down the avenue. In the thin, 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
