Quotes by Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of treesand changing leaves. — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whol — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
There it was before her - life. Life: she thought but she did not finish her thought. She took a look at life, for she h — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
in this case, a mother, noted for her beauty, might be reduced to a purple shadow... (Tansley to Lily on her painting of — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of wate — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Nancy waded out to her own rocks and searched her own pools and let that couple look after themselves. She crouched low — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
He turned from the sight of human ignorance and human fate and the sea eating the ground we stand on, which, had he been — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Was it wisdom? Was it knowledge? Was it, once more, the deceptiveness of beauty, so that all one’s perceptions, half-way — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that' — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
In the flailing light they all looked sharp-edged and ethereal and divided by great distances — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
It partook ... of eternity ... there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
They disagreed always about this, but it did not matter. She liked him to believe in scholarships, and he liked her to b — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just a — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
No, she thought, putting together some of the pictures he had cut out - a refrigerator, a mowing machine, a gentleman in — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
What was she dreaming about, Mrs. Ramsay wondered, seeing her engrossed, as she stood there, with some thought of her ow — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
...it struck her, this was tragedy-- not palls, dust, and the shroud; but children coerced, their spirits subdued. — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse