1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

...you have neither wife nor child (without any sexual feeling, she longed to cherish that loneliness)...

...(for the setting of her beauty was always that - hasty, but apt)...

Ma la bellezza non era tutto. La bellezza aveva questo guaio: veniva troppo immediatamente, veniva troppo completamente. Fermava la vita - la gelava. Ci si dimenticava le piccole agitazioni; l’arrossire, il pallore, qualche strana distorsione, qualche luce o ombra, che rendeva per un momento riconoscibile la faccia e tuttavia le dava una qualità che in seguito si vedeva per sempre.

...and warned her whose day had slipped past in one quick doing after another that it was all ephemeral as a rainbow—Woolf, Virginia. The Complete Works . Pandora's Box. Kindle Edition.

Am dorit întotdeauna să dilat noaptea și să o umplu din ce în ce mai mult cu vise.

Tu și eu, și ea trecem și pierim; nimic nu dăinuie; totul se schimbă; în afară de cuvinte și pictură.

Oh, but nonsense, she thought; William must marry Lily. They have so many things in common. Lily is so fond of flowers. They are both cold and aloof and rather self-sufficing. She must arrange for them to take a long walk together.

She would not say of anyone that they were this or that.

Evans, Evans!" He Cried.Mrs. Smith was talking aloud to himself, Agnes the servant girl cries to Mrs. Filmer in the kitchen. "Evans, Evans" he had said as she brought in the tray. She jumped, she did. She scuttled downstairs.