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#1

“Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: men, rescuing, women

#2

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: writing

3051 likes

#3

“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: women

3045 likes

#4

“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
― Virginia Woolf

3191 likes

#5

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: life

2660 likes

#6

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas

tags: calming, reassuring, true

2315 likes

#7

“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: growing-up, illusions, life

2058 likes

#8

“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: obsession

1307 likes

#9

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

tags: love

24159 likes

#10

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: love

9945 likes

#11

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity

9118 likes

#12

“These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: romeo-and-juliet, shakespeare

4281 likes

#13

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

3440 likes

#14

“Our doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.”
― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

tags: cowardice, doubt, resolve, self-doubt

1813 likes

#15

“Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet

tags: romeo-and-juliet

1592 likes

#16

“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet

tags: love, poetry

1281 likes

#17

“If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

2639 likes

#18

“I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: heart, heartbroken

2508 likes

#19

“Terror made me cruel . . .”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

tags: ghosts, haunting, supernatural

2062 likes

#20

“I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: rejection

1639 likes

#21

“Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

255 likes

#22

“Kiss me again, but don't let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer--but yours! How can I?”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

216 likes

#23

“May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: classics

279 likes

#24

“Existence, after losing her, would be hell”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: romance

133 likes

#25

“I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: gothic, heathcliff

131 likes

#26

“They forgot everything the minute they were together again.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: friendship, love

84 likes

#27

“Your cold blood cannot be worked into a fever; your veins are full of ice water; but mine are boiling, and the sight of such chillness makes them dance.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: coldness, love

70 likes

#28

“I 'never told my love' vocally; still, if looks have language, the merest idiot might have guessed I was over head and ears;”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: infatuation, love

54 likes

#29

“In secret pleasure — secret tears
This changeful life has slipped away”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: elly-kleinman

43 likes

#30

“People feel with their hearts, Ellen: and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: love

45 likes

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