The Hours quotes

51 total quotes

Clarissa Vaughan
Laura Brown
Multiple Characters
Richard Brown
Virginia Woolf

View Quote That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.

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 You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.