Virginia Woolf Quotes About Love

What could be more serious than the love of man for woman, what more commanding, more impressive, bearing in its bosom the seeds of death; at the same time these lovers, these people entering into illusion glittering eyed, must be danced round with mockery, decorated with garlands.

Love, the poet has said, is woman’s whole existence.

Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously? But it won’t – that’s the devil.

Love had a thousand shapes.

But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.

But look – he flicks his hand to the back of his neck. For such gestures one falls hopelessly in love for a lifetime.