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“But one only woke people if one knew what one wanted to say to them. And she wanted to say not one thing, but everything. Little words that broke up the thought and dismembered it said nothing. 'About life, about death; about Mrs Ramsay”

Virginia Woolf book To the Lighthouse

no, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody.
Part III, Ch. 5
To the Lighthouse (1927)

“Yes, I miss you, I miss you.”

“When you are silent you are again beautiful.”

Virginia Woolf book The Waves

The Waves

“Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them; it is for you to seek out this truth and to decide whether any part of it is worth keeping.”

Virginia Woolf book A Room of One's Own

Source: A Room of One's Own

“There is no doubt in my mind, that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice.”

“… a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.”

Virginia Woolf book A Room of One's Own

Source: A Room of One's Own

“I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.”

“And it was awfully strange, he thought, how she still had the power, as she came tinkling, rustling, still had the power as she came across the room, to make the moon, which he detested, rise at Bourton on the terrace in the summer sky.”

Virginia Woolf book Mrs Dalloway

Source: Mrs Dalloway

“There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death…”

Virginia Woolf book The Waves

Source: The Waves

“As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.”

“so that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again…”

Virginia Woolf book To the Lighthouse

Source: To the Lighthouse

“… I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.”

Source: A Writer's Diary

“Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.”

Virginia Woolf book A Room of One's Own

Source: A Room of One's Own

“It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.”

“Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.”

Source: Selected Diaries

“what she loved: life, London, this moment of June.”

Virginia Woolf book Mrs Dalloway

Source: Mrs. Dalloway

“Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame”

Virginia Woolf book Mrs Dalloway

Source: Mrs. Dalloway

“For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn…”

Virginia Woolf book Mrs Dalloway

Source: Mrs. Dalloway

“When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre”

Virginia Woolf book Mrs Dalloway

Source: Mrs. Dalloway

“Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.”