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The Hours

The Hours quotes

51 total quotes

Clarissa Vaughan
Laura Brown
Multiple Characters
Richard Brown
Virginia Woolf




View Quote Obviously, you feel unworthy. Gives you feelings of unworthiness. You survive and they don't.
View Quote There are times when you don't belong and you think you're going to kill yourself. Once I went to a hotel. Later that night I made a plan. The plan was I would leave my family when my second child was born. And that's what I did. I got up one morning, made breakfast, went to the bus stop, got on a bus. I'd left a note. I got a job in a library in Canada. It would be wonderful to say you regretted it. It would be easy. But what does it mean? What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. There it is. No-one's going to forgive me. It was death. I chose life.
View Quote Sally, I think I'll buy the flowers myself.
View Quote That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.
View Quote Why is everything wrong?
View Quote When I'm with him I feel... Yes, I am living. And when I'm not with him... Yes, everything does seem sort of silly.
View Quote I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.
View Quote Oh, Mrs. Dalloway... Always giving parties to cover the silence.
View Quote I wanted to be a writer, that's all. I wanted to write about it all. Everything that happens in a moment. The way the flowers looked when you carried them in your arms. This towel, how it smells, how it feels, this thread. All our feelings, yours and mine. The history of it, who we once were. Everything in the world. Everything all mixed up, like it's all mixed up now. And I failed. I failed. No matter what you start with it ends up being so much less. Sheer ****ing pride and stupidity.
View Quote Would you be angry if I died?
View Quote Just wait till I die. Then you'll have to think of yourself. How are you going to like that?
View Quote I had this fantastic notion. I took the Xanax and the Ritalin together. It had never occurred to me!
View Quote I've stayed alive for you. But now you have to let me go.
View Quote I don't think two people could have been happier than we've been.
View Quote Leonard: Do you think it's possible that bad writing actually attracts a higher incidence of error?