Virginia Woolf

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.

A woman's whole life in a single day. Just one day. And in that day her whole life.

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.

It's on this day. This day of all days. Her fate becomes clear to her.

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.

Everything's gone from me but the certainty of your goodness.

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

— If you were thinking clearly, Virginia, you'd recall it was London that brought you low.
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— If I were thinking clearly, Leonard, I would tell you that I wrestle alone in the dark in the deep dark, and that only I can know, only I can understand my own condition.

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