Virginia Woolf

First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#time #life

I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#virginia-woolf #beauty

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#brain #buried #buzzing #diving #humming

I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#love #love

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#catastrophes #deaths #diseases #kill #laugh

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

#life #truth #dreams

I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#old #spring #autumn

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#fiction #gender #on-fiction #problems #women

For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#life #time #age

The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#shakespeare #life