All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
VIRGINIA WOOLFAll extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWomen have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIntimacy is a difficult art.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
VIRGINIA WOOLFBut nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
VIRGINIA WOOLFNothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
VIRGINIA WOOLFFear no more, says the heart.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
VIRGINIA WOOLFMoments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
VIRGINIA WOOLFMelancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
VIRGINIA WOOLFFor books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWhy are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
VIRGINIA WOOLF