Virginia Woolf: The Complete Works (A to Z Classics)

by Virginia Woolf

I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.”

Meaning has gone.

The world is entire, and I am outside of it, crying, ‘Oh save me, from being blown for ever outside the loop of time!’”

Let us inhabit the underworld.

The ripple of my life was unavailing. I was unable to pass by. There was an obstacle. ‘I cannot surmount this unintelligible obstacle’, I said. And the others passed on. But we are doomed, all of us, by the apple trees, by the immitigable tree which we cannot pass.

I am turned; I am tumbled; I am stretched, among these long lights, these long waves, these endless paths, with people pursuing, pursuing.”