By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Such fools we are, she thought, crossing Victoria Street. For Heaven only knows why one loves it so, how one sees it… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality, has no such simple effect upon the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Yet she said to herself, from the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreathes heaped and roses; and if… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Now to sum it up,' said Bernard. 'Now to explain to you the meaning of my life. Since we do not know… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For the truth is (let her ignore it) that human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I should like to write four lines at a time, describing the same feeling, as a musician does; because it always seems… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
He began to search among the infinite series of impressions which time had laid down, leaf upon leaf, fold upon fold softly,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Yes, our old age is not going to be sunny orchard drowse. By shutting down the fire curtain, though, I find I… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
With my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Are they not criminals, books that have wasted our time and sympathy; are they not the most insidious enemies of society, corrupters,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She held in her hands for one brief moment the globe which we spend our lives in trying to shape, round, whole,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I dig out beautiful caves behind my characters; I think that gives exactly what I want; humanity, humor, depth. The idea is… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
for women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places; — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best thing a future can be, I think.” — 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
