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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.Virginia Woolf
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Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.Virginia Woolf
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Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that — everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. V.Virginia Woolf
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What does the brain matter compared with the heart?Virginia Woolf
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To love makes one solitary.Virginia Woolf
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?Virginia Woolf
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.Virginia Woolf
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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away...Virginia Woolf
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.Virginia Woolf
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.Virginia Woolf
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of treesand changing leaves.Virginia Woolf
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She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.Virginia Woolf
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By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.Virginia Woolf
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.Virginia Woolf
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There it was before her - life. Life: she thought but she did not finish her thought. She took a look at life, for she had a clear sense of it there, something real, something private, which she shared neither with her children nor with her husband. A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her; and sometimes they parleyed (when she sat alone); there were, she remembered, great reconciliation scenes; but for the most part, oddly enough, she must admit that she felt this thing that she called life terrible, hostile, and quick to pounce on you if you gave it a chance. .Virginia Woolf
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First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.Virginia Woolf
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Life stand still here.Virginia Woolf
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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
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The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.Virginia Woolf
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By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the streamVirginia Woolf