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Virginia Woolf Quotes about Darkness

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How can I express the darkness?

How can I express the darkness?

Virginia Woolf
Darkness, Chaos
Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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.

Virginia Woolf
Being Alone, Darkness, Invisible
Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.296, Wordsworth Editions

When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.

Virginia Woolf
Writing, Darkness, Existence
Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.97, Virginia Woolf

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

Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waves swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad.

Virginia Woolf
Darkness, Black, Tears

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