“It was some such feeling of completeness perhaps which, ten years ago, standing almost where she stood now, had made her say… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It was better to die, like Eugénie and Digby, in the prime of life with all one's faculties about one. But he… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Somehow the fact that only three or four hundred years ago these skeletons had been men with their way to make in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it; fame and missed it; love and not known it; life -… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
...so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“At first she tried to account for it by saying that she came of an ancient and civilized race, whereas these gypsies… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“the battered woman--for she wore a skirt--with her right hand exposed, her left clutching at her side, stood singing of love--love which… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“when suddenly, as if a shelf were shot forth and she stood on it, she said how she was his wife, married… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“and rocks and creaks and moans in the eternal breeze. Through all ages — when the pavement was grass, when it was… — 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
