The Hours quotes

51 total quotes

Clarissa Vaughan
Laura Brown
Multiple Characters
Richard Brown
Virginia Woolf

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

View Quote Laura: [We're] baking the cake to show him that we love him.
Richie: Otherwise he won't know we love him?
Laura: That's right.

View Quote I don't think two people could have been happier than we've been.

View Quote I've stayed alive for you. But now you have to let me go.

View Quote I am saying, Vanessa, that even crazy people like to be asked.

View Quote Oh I'm gonna make a cake. That's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna make the cake for daddy's birthday.

View Quote 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?

View Quote Oh, Mrs. Dalloway... Always giving parties to cover the silence.

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've been attended by doctors, who inform me of my own interests.

View Quote Virginia: You return to what?
Vanessa: Tonight. Oh, just some insufferable dinner not even you could envy, Virginia.
Virginia: But I do.

View Quote Why is everything wrong?

View Quote Just wait till I die. Then you'll have to think of yourself. How are you going to like that?

View Quote Sally, I think I'll buy the flowers myself.

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