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Moments Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging;…
- Yes, yes, I'm coming. Right up the top of the house. One moment I'll linger. How the mud goes round in the mind-what a swirl…
- We seem to be riding on the top of the highest mast of the tallest ship; and yet at the same time we know that…
- What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who…
- But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment.
- With my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon the massy wall…
- ...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to…
- With her foot on the threshold she waited a moment longer in a scene which was vanishing even as she looked, and then, as she…
- There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?
- Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
- It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical…
- It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths…
- Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.
- 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…
- These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.
- 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.…
- Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so…
- No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object…
- what she loved: life, London, this moment of june.
- The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features from faces. People…
- I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of…
- I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with…
- Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story? That I do…
- Rhoda comes now, having slipped in while we were not looking. She must have made a tortuous course, taking cover now behind a waiter, now…
- But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now…
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