Virginiawoolf Quotes

“We suffered terribly as we became separate bodies.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Virginia Woolf

“If he put implicit faith in her, nothing should hurt him; however deep he buried himself or climbed high, not for a second should he find himself without her. So boasting of her capacity to surround and protect, there was scarcely a shall of herself left for her to know herself by; all was so lavished and spent”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for every just as they were, demons of wickedness, angels of delight, never to see them grow up into long-legged monsters. [...] touching his hair with her lips, she thought, he will never be so happy again”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse