Virginia Woolf Quotes

“Every one has friends who were killed in the War. Every one gives up something when they marry.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

topic:marriage war

“With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes—one of the tragedies of married life.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

topic:marriage eyes

“For books have a way of influencing each other. Fiction will be much the better for standing cheek by jowl with poetry and philosophy.”

― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

topic:books poetry

“He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.”

― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

topic:memory dreams

“Anyhow there was no bitterness in her; none of that sense of moral virtue which is so repulsive in good women. She enjoyed practically everything.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

topic:virtue joy

“Sir William said he never spoke of 'madness'; he called it not having a sense of proportion.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

topic:madness

“It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.”

― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

topic:age

“They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

topic:mind

“As a cloud crosses the sun, silence falls on London; and falls on the mind.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

topic:mind silence

“To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have—to want and want—how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!”

― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

topic:desire

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