Virginia Woolf: Trending quotes (page 9)

“When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.”

“I am drowning, my dear, in seas of fire.”

“Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.”

“I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.”

“Language is wine upon the lips.”

“But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.”

“Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.”

“madam," the man cried, leaping to the ground, "you're hurt!" "I'm dead, sir!" she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged.”

“One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.”

“it is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams”

“Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these – ‘Chloe liked Olivia…’ Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.”

“Nothing has really happened unless it's been described [in words].”

“For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.”

“Marvelous are the innocent.”

“If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women…”

“For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.”

“I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.”

“I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement…”

“Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.”