The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from… — 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
What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So… — 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
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Without those forerunners, Jane Austen and the Brontes and George Eliot could no more have written than Shakespeare could have written without… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Outside the trees dragged their leaves like nets through the depths of the air; the sound of water was in the room… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There is no doubt in my mind, that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my… — 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
In the 18th century we knew how everything was done, but here I rise through the air, I listen to voices in… — 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
