"Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night." — Virginia Woolf

"Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night."

— Virginia Woolf

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642 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf has 642 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly,…
If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be…
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung…
I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I…
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost…
King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to…
It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet…
To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how…
The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

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All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. — Amelia Barr
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. — Charles Baudelaire
Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and… — Annie Besant
The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument. — Ritchie Blackmore
In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy. — Daniel Boone
I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general. — Sandra Bullock
To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to… — Alcaeus
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of… — Maurice Chevalier
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. — Duke of Wellington
Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature… — George Eliot
The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. — Jean Rhys
Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality. — Cyril Connolly

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