Virginia Woolf – Character Quotes

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. It's contrast.

I am ungrateful? You call me ungrateful? My life has been stolen from me. I'm living in a town I have no wish to live in. I'm living a life I have no wish to live. How did this happen?

You can not find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

Dear Leonard. To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard, always the years between us, always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.

Angelica: What happens when we die?
Virginia: What happens? [pause] We return to the place that we came from.
Angelica: I don't remember where I came from.
Virginia: Nor do I.

If it is a choice between Richmond and death, I choose death.

I was going to kill my heroine. But I've changed my mind. I fear I may have to kill someone else instead.