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If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I don’t admit to being hopeless, though: only th...more

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He is precisely the young man to fall headlong in love and repent it for the rest of his life.

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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

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Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!

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Milly Brush once might almost have fallen in love with these silences.

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To love makes one solitary.

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This was a favourite dress, one of Sally Parker's, the last almost she ever made, alas, for Sally had now retired, living at Ealing, and if ever I hav...more

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I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.But he never liked anyone who--our friends,' said Clarissa; and could have bitten her tongue...more

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Septimus has been working too hard" - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought.

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And the supreme mystery was simply this: here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?

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What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

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(June had drawn out every leaf on the trees. The mothers of Pimlico gave suck to their young. Messages were passing from the Fleet to the Admiralty. A...more

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Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

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We became six people at a table in Hampton Court. We rose and walked together down the avenue. In the thin, the unreal twilight, fitfully like the ech...more

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I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.