1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust

You have no one who has any sort of consideration for you. You have had patience and endurance till I am sick of the virtues, and what have they done for you? Half-killed you.

...prendia a respiração cogitando se Helen estaria acordada, se acendera o fogo para aquecer a água com que o marido se barbearia. Um novo dia nascera, e o bombeamento e a esfregação precisavam recomeçar. Portanto a Cheyne Row nº5 é mais um campo de batalha do que um local de habitação - é um cenário de trabalho braçal, esforço e luta perpétua.

We are all swept on by the torrent of things grown so familiar that they cast no shade...

We shall be the mouthpieces of the divine spirit—

Цял живот ще вися от външната страна на думите.

You look, eat, smile, are bored, pleased, annoyed - that is all I know. Yet this shadow which has sat by me for an hour or two, this mask from which peep two eyes, has power to drive me back, to pinion me down among all those other faces, to shut me in a hot room; to send me dashing like a moth from candle to candle.

Well, how was she going to defend herself? Now that she knew what it was, she felt perfectly happy. They thought, or Peter at any rate thought, that she enjoyed imposing herself; liked to have famous people about her; great names; was simply a snob in short. Well, Peter might think so. Richard merely thought it foolish of her to like excitement when she knew it was bad for her heart. It was childish, he thought. And both were quite wrong. What she liked was simply life.

Удивен съм как само свалям булото на нещата с думи и колко много, колко неизразимо повече забелязвам, отколкото мога да изкажа.