Poetry Quote by Virginia Woolf — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Yes yes yes I do like you. I am afraid to write the stronger word.”

“in this case, a mother, noted for her beauty, might be reduced to a purple shadow... (Tansley to Lily on her painting of the house & grounds)”

“Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story? That I do not know. Hence I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard, waiting for some one to wear them. Thus waiting, thus speculating, making this note and then an· other I do not cling to life. I shall be brushed like a bee from a sunflower. My philosophy, always accumulating, welling up moment by moment, runs like quicksilver a dozen ways at once.”

“Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange.”

“Septimus has been working too hard" - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought.”

“We must all be allowed our moments of insanity and senselessness. Without them, what sort of dull, lifeless creatures would we be?”

“I have been happy, though in a dream.”

“...they come to us, these restless dead,”

“You're trying not to tell him you love him, and you're trying to choke down the feeling, and you're trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you've discovered something you don't even have a name for.”

“I'm becoming more a vessel of memories than a person it's a myth /”

“How clear, how lovely bright,”