All Virginia Woolf Quotes
- Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment. Beings
- What does the brain matter compared with the heart? Brain
- The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye, that opened suddenly, and softly in the evening. Now— James looked at the… Barred
- All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the general… All
- Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but… All
- It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one; felt they became… Alone
- Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. Buy
- Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that… Admirable
- Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift are heavy. They… Angry
- Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having. Funny
- As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to… Asking
- To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have-… All
- So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the… Afresh
- Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his… All
- I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything. Everywhere
- With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life. Eye
- It is equally vain,” she thought, “for you to think you can protect me, or for me to think I can worship you. The light… Beats
- Twice Flush had done his utmost to kill his enemy; twice he had failed. And why had he failed, he asked himself? Because he loved… Asked
- I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific. Always Going
- I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire… Became
- That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under… Addict
- For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat stone. "What is… Arm
- O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets! Flower
- The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark. Come Instead
- Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning could have been… Aimlessly