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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
— Virginia Woolf
This late age of the world's experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears.
— Virginia Woolf
It's my choice, to choose how to live my life.
— Virginia Woolf
Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life.
— Virginia Woolf
There was an emptiness about the heart of life; an attic room.
— Virginia Woolf
The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.
— 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.
— Virginia Woolf
Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty - it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life - froze it.
— Virginia Woolf
You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.
— Virginia Woolf
Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.
— Virginia Woolf
The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.
— Virginia Woolf
Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day
— Virginia Woolf
Made up, as one makes up the better part of life ... making oneself up; ... creating an exquisite amusement ...
— Virginia Woolf
First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.
— Virginia Woolf
It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.
— Virginia Woolf
Happy the mother who bears, happier still the biographer who records the life of such a one!
— Virginia Woolf
I am not going to lie down and weep away a life of care.
— Virginia Woolf
Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.
— Virginia Woolf
Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.
— Virginia Woolf
With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes one of the tragedies of married life. — Virginia Woolf
Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.
— Virginia Woolf
A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
— Virginia Woolf
The immense success of our life is, I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that nothing can touch it.
— Virginia Woolf
I shall be a clinger to the outsides of worlds all my life.
— Virginia Woolf
Every secret of a writers soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works - Virginia Woolf
— Tracie Podger
First she starved herself of love, which meant also life; then of poetry in deference to what she thought her religion demanded.
— Virginia Woolf
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
— Virginia Woolf
Semi mystic very profound life of a woman, which shall all be told on one occasion; & time shall be utterly obliterated
— Virginia Woolf
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
— Virginia Woolf
Habits gradually change the face of one's life as time changes one's physical face; & one does not know it.
— Virginia Woolf
And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of treesand changing leaves. — Virginia Woolf
Absorbing, mysterious, of infinite richness, this life.
— Virginia Woolf
If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills - than my bowl without a doubt stands upon this memory.
— Virginia Woolf
Here am I shedding one of my life-skins and all they will say is, 'Bernard is spending ten days in Rome'.
— Virginia Woolf
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
— Virginia Woolf
When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook - a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.
— Virginia Woolf
Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.
— Virginia Woolf
It's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.
— Virginia Woolf
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf means who's afraid of the big bad wolf ... who's afraid of living life without false illusions.
— Edward Albee
Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotion made the ply of human life.
— Virginia Woolf
Joy's life in the doing (..) I mean it's the writing, not the being read that excites me.
— Virginia Woolf
Punctuality is one of the minor virtues which we do not acquire until later in life.
— Virginia Woolf
How remorseless life is!
— Virginia Woolf
Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life.
— Virginia Woolf
What she loved: life, London, this moment of June.
— Virginia Woolf
It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
— Virginia Woolf
A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.
— Virginia Woolf
The whole of life did not consist in going to bed with a woman, he thought, returning to Scott and Balzac, to the English novel and the French novel.
— Virginia Woolf
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual
— Virginia Woolf
Oh! dear me, the mystery of life; The inaccuracy of thought! The ignorance of humanity!
— Virginia Woolf
The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.
— Virginia Woolf
Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.
— Virginia Woolf
Oh, I am in love with life!
— Virginia Woolf
She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged
— Virginia Woolf
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
— Virginia Woolf
To Look Life in the Face ... !!!
— Virginia Woolf
Before parting that night we agreed that the objects of life were to produce good people and good books.
— Virginia Woolf
Life's bare as a bone.
— Virginia Woolf
Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
— Virginia Woolf
He is precisely the young man to fall headlong in love and repent it for the rest of his life.
— Virginia Woolf
Life and a lover
— Virginia Woolf
So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living.
— Virginia Woolf
Life would split apart without letters.
— Virginia Woolf
To upset everything every 3 or 4 years is my notion of a happy life.
— Virginia Woolf
Often I feel the different aspects of life bursting my mind asunder.
— Virginia Woolf
I am obsessed at nights with the idea of my own worthlessness, and if it were only to turn a light on to save my life I think I would not do it.
— Virginia Woolf
And since beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful, and he is static, his life stagnates in a china sea.
— Virginia Woolf
And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
— Virginia Woolf
Life stand still here.
— Virginia Woolf
Millions of things came back to her. Atoms danced apart and massed themselves. But how did they compose what people called a life?
— Virginia Woolf
Use words that soak up life.
— Virginia Woolf
The best thing to do against life was to fold the paper so that it made a perfectsquare, crisp, thick, impervious even to life. — Virginia Woolf
Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories. — Virginia Woolf
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
— Virginia Woolf
...life allowed to waste like a tap left running.
— Virginia Woolf
For nothing matters except life; and, of course, order.
— Virginia Woolf
I fear I shall be a clinger to the outsides of words all my life.
— Virginia Woolf
You must remember that fiction is the mirror of life.
— Virginia Woolf
