#virginia woolf quotes

[srvyxhi]

"I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life." -Virginia Woolf.

[ardent-reflections]

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

Virginia Woolf

[mysterieuxclairdelune]

I wonder if you talked about me, as you went home, or thought of me when the moon rose.

-Virginia Woolf, Letter to Vanessa Bell

[daydreamers-serene-musings]

"The flowers have come, and are adorable, dusky, tortured, passionate like you--"

--Virginia Woolf

[whilereadingandwalking]

“I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”—from The Waves by Virginia Woolf

[stopthinkingg]

"Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness.."

-Virginia Woolf's Suicide Note

March 28, 1941

[luckystarinsky]

"what if i told you i am incapable of tolerating my own heart?"

—Virginia Woolf

"i desire things which will destroy me in the end.”

—Sylvia Plath

[divno]

In the cracks of light

I dreamed of you

it was real enough to get me through

- evermore by taylor swift ft. bon iver

[dark-academia-quotes]

"As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall."

- Virginia Woolf

[perdicescode]

i appreciate your concern. none of this is your fault. it’s me. it’s me and my head.

in winter, i collapse.

- virginia woolf

[persephonediary]

I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way.

Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1926)

[sulasnsleep]

“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”

— Virginia Woolf

[ardent-reflections]

I can't tell you how piercingly and endlessly I think about you.

Virginia Woolf

[daydreamers-serene-musings]

She has a charming nature; rather whimsical, and even sensual.

--Virginia Woolf

[whilereadingandwalking]

“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.”—Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

[luckystarinsky]

To love someone is firstly to confess: I'm prepared to be devastated by you.