“Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mountain-top is covered… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Vita has been twice. She is doomed to go to Persia; and I mind the thought so much (thinking to lose sight… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I've just stopped talking to you. It seems so strange. It's perfectly peaceful here--they're playing bowls--I'd just put flowers in your room.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Here she tossed her foot impatiently, and showed an inch or two of calf. A sailor on the mast, who happened to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Oh, yes, dear reader: the essay is alive. There is no reason to despair.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I need someone whose mind falls like a chopper on a block; to whom the pitch of absurdity is sublime, and a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The world is crammed with delightful things. I think young people make such a mistake about that — not letting themselves be… — 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
“As summer neared, as the evening lengthened there came to the wakeful, the hopeful, walking the beach, stirring the pool, imaginations of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“These selves of which we are built up, one on top of another, as plates are piled on a waiter's hand, have… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I exist only in the soles of my feet and in the tired muscles of my thighs. We have been walking for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The wave paused, and then drew out again, sighing like a sleeper whose breath comes and goes unconsciously.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Isa let her sewing drop. The great hooded chairs had become enormous. And Giles too. And Isa too against the window. The… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, half-way down, in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“My belief is that if we live another century or so — I am talking of the common life which is the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Must, must, must — detestable word. Once more, I who had thought myself immune, who had said, "Now I am rid of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Lord, how unutterably disgusting life is! What dirty tricks it plays us, one moment free; the next, this. Here we are among… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare is getting flyblown; a paternal government might well forbid writing about him, as they put his monument at Stratford beyond the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“And somehow or other, the windows being open, and the book held so that it rested upon a background of escallonia hedges… — 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
“But Orlando was a woman — Lord Palmerston had just proved it. And when we are writing the life of a woman,… — 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
