So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“That illusion of a world so shaped that it echoes every groan, of human beings so tied together by common needs and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
O how blessed it would be never to marry, or grow old; but to spend one's life innocently and indifferently among the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is… — 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
I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind's… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
But he could not taste, he could not feel. In the teashop among the tables and the chattering waiters the appalling fear… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell 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
