115 Quotes About Virginia-woolf

If you are losing your leisure, look out! -- It may be you are losing your soul.

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone.

When the guns fired in August 1914, did the faces of men and women show so plain in each other's eyes that romance was killed?

For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.

In your modesty you seem to consider that writers are of different blood and bone from yourselves; that they know more of Mrs Brown than you do. Never was there a more fatal mistake. It is this division between reader and writer, this humility on your part, these professional airs and graces on ours, that corrupt and emasculate the books which should be the healthy offspring of a close and equal alliance between us.

La marea comienza a descender. Los árboles afirman nuevamente sus raíces en la tierra. Las olasde sangre que golpeaban mis costados se apaciguan y mi corazón echa anclas, semejante a un barcocuyas velas se deslizan, cayendo suavemente sobre el puente inmaculado. El juego ha concluido. Es horade ir a tomar el té

It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, half-way down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waters swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad.

Até os homens e as mulheres parecem ter encolhido, tornaram-se numerosos e diminutos ao invés de únicos e substanciais.