Virginia Woolf Quotes

Women live much more in the past than we do, he thought. They attach themselves to places. ~ Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell, and she had felt that was true of life--one scratched on the wall. ~ Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels. ~ Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf "What does the brain matter," said Lady Rosseter, getting up, "compared with the heart?" ~ Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink. ~ Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged. She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on. She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day. ~ Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. ~ Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf They never pulled the curtains till it was too dark to see, nor shut the windows till it was too cold. Why shut out the day before it was over? The flowers were still bright; the birds chirped. You could see more in the evening often when nothing interrupted, when there was no fish to order, no telephone to answer. ~ Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf Music wakes us. Music makes us see the hidden, join the broken. ~ Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf "Books are the mirrors of the soul." ~ Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf