All Virginia Woolf Quotes
- Now to sum it up,' said Bernard. 'Now to explain to you the meaning of my life. Since we do not know each other (though… Adheres
- Well, we must wait for the future to show. Future
- Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue. Another Tongue
- One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen,… Almost Entirely
- I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September. Brain
- The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty. Afraid
- I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing… Another Without
- 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 recover this time.… Begin
- How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings… Bare
- I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement. Begin
- These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom. Despised
- I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarreling… All
- Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear… Another Nature
- . . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude. Clumsiness
- But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory. Bernard
- It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had… Bead
- Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action. Action
- . . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest. Alone
- Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut… Bring
- Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems. Concerned
- Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has,… All
- For we think back through our mothers if we are women. Inspirational
- Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person. Another Person
- There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes… Closed
- For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh.… Asunder