Mrs Dalloway Quotes

• She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking some past stage on this adventurous, long, long voyage, this interminable --- this interminable life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Past, White, Long

  Virginia Woolf (1996). “Mrs Dalloway”, p.118, Wordsworth Editions

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• What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Brain, Doe

  "Selected Works of Virginia Woolf".

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• Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.

  Virginia Woolf

  Flower, Tree, Darkness

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.68, Broadview Press

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• She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.

  Virginia Woolf

  Atheist, Sake, Blame

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.107, Broadview Press

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• She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.

  Virginia Woolf

  Happiness, Taxi Cabs, Sea

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.132, Wordsworth Editions

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• He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beautiful, Wise, Ink

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.85, Broadview Press

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• Still, life had a way of adding day to day

  Virginia Woolf

  Way, Still Life, Stills

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.96, Broadview Press

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• Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high school, when I was 15 years old.

  Michael Cunningham

  Book, School, Virginia

  "The Pulitzer for Fiction". "PBS NewsHour" with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. April 19, 1999.

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• ...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.

  Virginia Woolf

  Feelings, One Day, Dangerous

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.132, Wordsworth Editions

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• Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

  Virginia Woolf

  Skeletons, Habit, Humans

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.49, Broadview Press

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• It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.

  Virginia Woolf

  World, Might

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.184, Wordsworth Editions

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• Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely? All this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely?

  Virginia Woolf

  Believe, Goes On, Matter

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.9, Broadview Press

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• Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence

  Virginia Woolf

  Party, Giving, Silence

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• Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.

  Virginia Woolf

  Flower, Said

  Mrs. Dalloway pt. 1, sec. 1 (1925)

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• Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall

  Virginia Woolf

  Fall, Heart, Sea

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.39, Broadview Press

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• Fear no more, says the heart.

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.39, Broadview Press

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• It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

  Virginia Woolf

  Pity, Thousand, Feels

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.201, Wordsworth Editions

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• The world has raised its whip; where will it descend?

  Virginia Woolf

  World, Raised, Whips

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.14, Broadview Press

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• For women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places.

  Virginia Woolf

  Past

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• After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.

  Virginia Woolf

  World, Ends, Unbelievable

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.934, Delphi Classics

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• But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.

  Virginia Woolf

  Being In Love, People, Strange

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.873, Delphi Classics

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• Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Men, Others Opinions

  A Room of One's Own (1929) ch. 3

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• What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.

  Virginia Woolf

  Excitement, Said, Ecstasy

  Virginia Woolf (1996). “Mrs Dalloway”, p.141, Wordsworth Editions

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• Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day

  Virginia Woolf

  Hot, Way, Sun

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.96, Broadview Press

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• Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

  Virginia Woolf

  Kindness, Character, Charity

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.89, Broadview Press

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