Virginia Woolf Quotes

She carried her pocket Shakespeare about with her, and met life fortified by the words of the poets. ~ Night and Day by Virginia Woolf "Well, I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married," she said. ~ Night and Day by Virginia Woolf "I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river; to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything." ~ Night and Day by Virginia Woolf In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows. ~ Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title. ~ Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf "When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?" ~ Night and Day by Virginia Woolf Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day. ~ Night and Day by Virginia Woolf What did she feel? Did she love him, or did she feel nothing at all for him or for any other man, being, as she had said that afternoon, free, like the wind or the sea? ~ The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf There was another flourish; and then the trio dashed spontaneously into the triumphant swing of the waltz. It was as though the room were instantly flooded with water. After a moment's hesitation first one couple, then another, leapt into mid-stream, and went round and round in the eddies. ~ The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf