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Mrs Dalloway Quotes

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

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

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

Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.

Virginia Woolf
Flower, Mrs Dalloway, Said
Mrs. Dalloway pt. 1, sec. 1 (1925)

Fear no more, says the heart.

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

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

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

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

Virginia Woolf
Past, Mrs Dalloway

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

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

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

Virginia Woolf
Feelings, One Day, Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.132, Wordsworth Editions

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

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

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

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

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