Mrs Dalloway Quotes

“did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely; all this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely?”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

topic:death

“There was an emptiness about the heart of life; an attic room. Women must put off their rich apparel. At midday they must disrobe.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

topic:women loneliness

“now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

topic:freedom

“Fear no more, says the heart in the body; fear no more.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

topic:fear heart courage

“And she didn't know their names, but friends she knew they were, friends without names, songs without words, always the best.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

topic:friendship music

“she thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

topic:religion goodness

“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

“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

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