Virginia Woolf on Death
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Virginia Woolf, catalogued under death, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Virginia Woolf, entry #99321: "Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street."
Attributed to Virginia Woolf, entry #68307: "The chief charges against her were that she was dead, and therefore could not hold any property; that she was a woman which amounts to much the same thing …"
5 Quotes by Virginia Woolf on Death
"Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street."
"The chief charges against her were that she was dead, and therefore could not hold any property; that she was a woman which amounts to much the same thing …"
"Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue."
"This last week L. has been having a little temperature in the evening, due to malaria, and that due to a visit to Oxford; a place of death and decay. I'm almost alarmed to see how entirely my weight rests on his prop. And almost alarmed to see how intensely I'm specialised. My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child – wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry."
"She felt this thing that she called life terrible, hostile, and quick to pounce on you if you gave it a chance. There were the eternal problems: suffering; death; the poor. There was always a woman dying of cancer even here. And yet she had said to all these children, You shall go through with it."