This page contains quotes from the movie The Hours. You can find more Alphabetized listing of films for which quotations are available in the index page. Thanks to the many celebrated and unheralded screenwriters who have provided these memorable movie quotes and lines of dialogue.


Home >> Moviequotes >> T >> The Hours




Quotes from the movie The Hours
 0
Dearest, I feel certain I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of these terrible times again and I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices and can't concentrate. So I'm doing what seems to be the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I know that I'm spoiling your life and without me you could work, and you will, I know. You see, I can't even write this properly. What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me. And incredibly good. Everything is gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
Virginia Woolf


Leonard, I believe I may have a first sentence.
Virginia Woolf


Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
Virginia Woolf


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


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


I can't think of anything more exhilarating than a trip to London.
Virginia Woolf


I am saying, Vanessa, that even crazy people like to be asked.
Virginia Woolf


Did it matter, then, she asked herself, walking toward Bond Street. Did it matter that she must inevitably cease, completely. All this must go on without her. Did she resent it? Or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely? It is possible to die. It is possible to die.
Virginia Woolf


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


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?
Virginia Woolf


If I were thinking clearly, Leonard, I would tell you that I wrestle alone in the dark, in the deep dark. And that only I can know, only I can understand my own condition. You live with the threat, you tell me you live with the threat of my extinction. Leonard, I live with it too. This is my right; it is the right of every human being. I choose not the suffocating anesthetic of the suburbs but the violent jolt of the Capital. That is my choice. The meanest patient, yes, even the very lowest is allowed some say in the matter of her own prescription. Thereby she defines her humanity. I wish, for your sake, Leonard, I could be happy in this quietness. But if it is a choice between Richmond and death, I choose death.
Virginia Woolf


You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.
Virginia Woolf


Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. It's contrast.
Virginia Woolf


Dear Leonard. To look life in the face. Always to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it. To love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard. Always the years between us. Always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.
Virginia Woolf


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


Obviously, you feel unworthy. Gives you feelings of unworthiness. You survive and they don't.
Laura Brown


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.
Laura Brown


Sally, I think I'll buy the flowers myself.
Clarissa Vaughan


That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.
Clarissa Vaughan


Why is everything wrong?
Clarissa Vaughan


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.
Clarissa Vaughan


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.
Clarissa Vaughan


Oh, Mrs. Dalloway... Always giving parties to cover the silence.
Richard Brown


Would you be angry if I died?
Richard Brown


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