All Virginia Woolf Quotes
- He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of the oak tree… All
- How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling? Any
- A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying… Always Trying
- Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence Always Giving
- He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life. Dream
- To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly, so brutally, was… Astonishing
- Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art… Art
- In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them… Anguish
- The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on… Bare
- Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and gazes at his… Age
- It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy. Dream
- ...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day. Dangerous
- The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames. Burst
- So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball Ball
- Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are. Bud
- Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in… Besides
- All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away, unreal. Already the little distance they had sailed had put them far… All
- And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will founder. Some will… All
- Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day Adding
- She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave… Beach
- Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by… Away Suddenly
- If it were now to die, 'twere now to be most happy. Die
- We are about to part," said Neville. "Here are the boxes; here are the cabs. There is Percival in his billycock hat. He will forget… Among
- I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely. Funny
- And it was awfully strange, he thought, how she still had the power, as she came tinkling, rustling, still had the power as she came… Across