Virginia Woolf Quotes

Darkness does not age; nothing is always nothing

Black is the Color and none is the number

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us.

Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence.

I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness.

In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.

There is only one direction. (Down.) There is only one color. (Black.) And there is only one number (Zero.)

Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

When you are there, you are. With words, you aren't.

When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

Were all the letters sun, I could not see one.

She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.

When I look at things, I always see the space they occupy. I always want the space to reappear, to make a comeback, because it's lost space when there's something in it.

All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.

I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere

I can connect Nothing with nothing

Every something is an echo of nothing

Nothingness haunts Being.

It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.

Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.

There's no lack of void.

Darkness is only light's absence.

These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light.