Virginia Woolf Quotes
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The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness
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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.
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Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just as the way they were, demons of wickedness, angels of delight, never to see them grow up into long-legged monsters.
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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. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
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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 touches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse. Then it seems to me I am allowed to see the heart of the world uncovered for a moment.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.
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Do not move, do not go. Sink within this moment. Hold it for ever.
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But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.
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It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.
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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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All extremes are dangerous.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.
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Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.
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Words belong to each other.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life
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Women alone stir my imagination.
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I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
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And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.
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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 mind which they interpret and indeed almost discover, so that we come to read them rather for that than for any story or character or scene of seperate excellence.
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To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?
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For we think back through our mothers if we are women.