Quotes from Virginia Woolf

As a plant on the river-bed feels the shock of a passing oar and shivers: so she rocked: so she shivered.

Her look, passing through all that time and that emotion, reached him doubtfully; settled on him tearfully; and rose and fluttered away, as a bird touches a branch and rises and flutters away.

kardjának élét az élet felé fordítva...

we may prate of democracy, but actually, a poor child in England has little more hope than had the son of an Athenian slave to be emancipated into that intellectual freedom of which great writings are born.

I reach my object and say, Wander no more. All else is trial and make-believe.

Es mucho más fácil matar a un fantasma que a una realidad.

I am in love,' he said, not to her however, but to someone raised up in the dark so that you could not touch her but must lay your garland down on the grass in the dark.

En cualquier caso, parecía todo luz, resplandeciente, como un pájaro o un etéreo plumón que hubiera entrado con un soplo de viento y se hubiese posado un instante en una zarza.

And again I am reminded by dipping into newspapers and novels and biographies that when a woman speaks to women she should have something very unpleasant up her sleeve. Women are hard on women. Women dislike women.

I have found my mate,' she murmured. 'It is the moor. I am nature's bride.

Nothing happens here except that I write and write, and curse and burn.

No age can ever have been as stridently sex-conscious as our own; those innumerable books by men about women in the British Museum are a proof of it. The Suffrage campaign was no doubt to blame. It must have roused in men an extraordinary desire for self-assertion; it must have made them lay an emphasis upon their own sex and its characteristics which they would not have troubled to think about had they not been challenged

The solitary traveller, haunter of lanes, disturber of ferns, and devastator of great hemlock plants, looking up, suddenly sees the giant figure at the end of the ride.

S úgy érezte, megint kettesben, szemtÅ'l szembe kerültek, Å' maga s ellenfele, az élet.

Até os homens e as mulheres parecem ter encolhido, tornaram-se numerosos e diminutos ao invés de únicos e substanciais.

How she had loved sound when she was a boy, and thought the volley of tumultuous syllables from the lips the finest of all poetry.

Sie fühlte sich sehr jung; gleichzeitig unaussprechlich betagt. Sie schnitt wie ein Messer durch alles; war gleichzeitig außerhalb und sah zu. Sie hatte eine nicht endende Empfindung, während sie die Droschken beobachtete, draußen zu sein, draußen, weit draußen auf See, und allein; sie hatte immer das Gefühl, es sei sehr, sehr gefährlich, auch nur einen Tag zu leben.

Prompted by the sky, which seemed to make it all a little futile—what they said, what they did—she said something perfectly commonplace again.

Like and like and like - but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

His only airings, and these were brief and perfunctory, were taken in the company of Wilson, Miss Barrett's maid. For the rest of the day he kept his station on the sofa at Miss Barrett's feet. All his natural instincts were thwarted and contradicted.

Remember my party tonight!

But if there are no stories, what end can there be, or what beginning?

Entonces se produjo el momento más exquisito de su vida, al pasar junto a una hornacina de piedra con flores. Sally se detuvo; cogió una flor; la besó en los labios. ¡Fue como si el mundo entero se hubiese puesto boca abajo! Los demás desaparecieron; ahí estaba ella a solas con Sally.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats—and one always secretes too much jelly.