Alive Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mountain-top is covered in mist,…

— Virginia Woolf

“I exist only in the soles of my feet and in the tired muscles of my thighs. We have been walking for hours it…

— Virginia Woolf

“These selves of which we are built up, one on top of another, as plates are piled on a waiter's hand, have attachments elsewhere,…

— Virginia Woolf

“For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash to stand…

— Virginia Woolf

“As summer neared, as the evening lengthened there came to the wakeful, the hopeful, walking the beach, stirring the pool, imaginations of the strangest…

— Virginia Woolf

“Books, she thought, grew of themselves. She never had time to read them. Alas! even the books that had been given her, and inscribed…

— Virginia Woolf

“The world is crammed with delightful things. I think young people make such a mistake about that — not letting themselves be happy. I…

— Virginia Woolf

“I need someone whose mind falls like a chopper on a block; to whom the pitch of absurdity is sublime, and a shoestring adorable.…

— Virginia Woolf

“Now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an…

— Virginia Woolf

“Here she tossed her foot impatiently, and showed an inch or two of calf. A sailor on the mast, who happened to look down…

— Virginia Woolf

“And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and…

— Virginia Woolf

“I've just stopped talking to you. It seems so strange. It's perfectly peaceful here--they're playing bowls--I'd just put flowers in your room. And there…

— Virginia Woolf