Virginia Woolf's Suicide letter to Leonard Woolf

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  • 'Dearest,
    I feel certain I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems 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 don't think two people could have been happier till this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know.
    You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that - everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has 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.
    V.'
    I take no credit from this video

ความคิดเห็น • 106

  • @iv7267
    @iv7267 2 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    "i can't go on spoiling your life any longer.''
    And there are people who consider suicide selfishness.

  • @AN474-e1o
    @AN474-e1o 2 ปีที่แล้ว +110

    "If anybody could have saved me it would have been you."
    Probably the most heart-breaking line from the letter.

    • @seeuathebeach
      @seeuathebeach 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      in which sense?

  • @blueguitarblue
    @blueguitarblue 12 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    Leonard Woolf was an angelic husband. He hired cooks and maids so Virginia could focus all her energy on writing. He made her a room of her own. "Room of her Own" is one of the greatest feminist writings ever written.

  • @smorgi
    @smorgi 9 ปีที่แล้ว +173

    'Everything is gone from me but the certainty of your goodness.'

    • @whit2642
      @whit2642 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I cried at that part. I relate to her alot. I have bipolar and am a creative mind. always have been. And being so very sensitive causes such very large pain in the soul. I have thought these things about my family many times.... that they would be better without the impingement of me.

    • @gauravgtm91
      @gauravgtm91 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I wanna know the meaning of this line... Can anyone plz explain

    • @chilledtorsion
      @chilledtorsion 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      think about it

    • @haamid9347
      @haamid9347 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@whit2642i don't know who you are,but may God( Allah) bless you with good health and guide you and us all ❤ you are sweet human

  • @Restatwork
    @Restatwork 10 ปีที่แล้ว +157

    To those who believe suicide a sin and its doers cowards, it definitely doesn't "have to happen" but try to emphasise with the suffering and torment that drove these people to the brink. Terrible things must have happened to make a person give up the hope of living...most of them don't want it too, deep down they know they shouldn't but we all have our limits as we have pain thresholds. So emphasise and help these ppl instead of labelling them. And I don't think this movie is romanticising suicide, it just shows how it can be a very rational decision made on the grounds of guilt and empathy, not selfishness.

    • @Angel-xd9lt
      @Angel-xd9lt 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wow that is a powerful statement... everyone has their own views on suicide and its really what is going on with that person and We think we know someone inside and out but to be honest we don't especially when it comes to something like this***

    • @sf-lv2wm
      @sf-lv2wm หลายเดือนก่อน

      Agreed fully

  • @antoniocox5156
    @antoniocox5156 8 ปีที่แล้ว +197

    I remember when I was at the lowest point of my life and suffering a mental breakdown with panic attacks and phobias and loneliness relating so much to this scene. This truly is one of the most touching and best films of all times!

    • @AnaDiasTrad
      @AnaDiasTrad 8 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Totally agree. And I think people with depression can relate to a lot of situations and understand the feelings conveyed by the characters through their body language. Julianne Moore plays a character not all can relate to - her disconfort, her sadness, and restlesness, her struggle inside. It's not something she verbalises, but something she does with her eyes, her body, her actions. I related a lot with that character in particular precisely because she didn't say what she felt... she gave us a "show" of emotions, hidden emotions, even. And yet, one can see through her... if one pays attention, or feels the same. Many people don't get her character. It's not out in the open.

    • @jordanabeaulieu2530
      @jordanabeaulieu2530 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Antonio Cox It's so sad that someone feels so much despair that her or his only option is to take their own life. Could Virginia Wolfe have been helped but probably in those days, clinical depression wasn't something that was as recognized as today

    • @colleenross8752
      @colleenross8752 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'm glad her fate wasn't yours. Stay strong

  • @adampyka214
    @adampyka214 7 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    It is maybe THE Movie people not suffering from depression will never fully understand.The suffering,the struggling,that darkness....what a beatiful movie and outstanding performances.

  • @ninacossyra1725
    @ninacossyra1725 7 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Dearest,
    I feel certain I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems 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 don't think two people could have been happier till this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that - everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has 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.

  • @Neno0110
    @Neno0110 8 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    "Everything is gone from me except certain of youre goodness" Wow.Every time i hear that is just amazing.

  • @kultapippuri1979
    @kultapippuri1979 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    As a child I used to watch this movie over and over again, but I couldn't understand her behavior. Living with the same illness two decades later, I'm sad to say that now I do.

    • @AN474-e1o
      @AN474-e1o 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I remember when I was a child my Dad used to play 'Starry Starry Night', a song about Van Gogh, in the car. I asked him about it and he explained the story. I remember how strange and foreign it seemed to me that someone would kill themselves. Years later, it doesn't seem strange anymore.

    • @aaronwhitty22
      @aaronwhitty22 ปีที่แล้ว

      ❤❤❤

    • @supunsandika5455
      @supunsandika5455 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Could you please tell me the name of movie

    • @thisnigerianlovesdrinkingg4522
      @thisnigerianlovesdrinkingg4522 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@supunsandika5455it’s called The Hours

  • @pandora8478
    @pandora8478 9 ปีที่แล้ว +134

    One of the saddest things I've ever heard because it's so unselfish and she so loves him.

    • @evaevita1919
      @evaevita1919 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +Robby Khullar I Totally Agree with you.

  • @myfragilelilac
    @myfragilelilac 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Im so sad for all those souls who vanished in mental illness, when treatment wasnt as available. I have an anxiety disorder and live a more stable life now on antideppressants.

  • @mothbits
    @mothbits 12 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Makes me cry every time, not from sadness but from the beauty. All that beauty.

  • @sylkev
    @sylkev 10 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    How very sad..... I can sympathise with her and often feel the same way....

  • @AndreaLabate
    @AndreaLabate 12 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    "You have been in every way all that anyone could be."

  • @Rich_Daniel78
    @Rich_Daniel78 9 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Nicole sooo deserved the Oscar, amazing acting all the way.

  • @ThyFacelessOne
    @ThyFacelessOne 10 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    And that is why she is so adorable. She killed herself not for her own selfish reasons, but because she didn' t want to be a burden on the life of her loved ones. Plus, in World War II London suffered greatly from nazi attacks, which broke her heart. Her London home was destroyed! She lived in Sussex, but loved London immensely. And she has so severe moods and hallucinations, and no effective medications, that she wanted to crawl her own eyes out a lot of times. Yet, when she was in control of her own body and emotions, she wrote magnificent, visionary things like The Lighthouse, A Room OF One' s Own and Mrs. Dalloway, among others.
    I believe we have the right to kill ourself when we are not useful, productive to anyone anymore, including ourselves, and we are just vegetating, despite we have tried everything to better our condition.

  • @Brunasi1
    @Brunasi1 14 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The Perfect Letter
    'I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.' V.

  • @FanOfAyn
    @FanOfAyn 8 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Beautifully filmed and magnificently written movie. I read "Mrs. Dalloway", "A Room of One's Own" and "The Hours" afterward. My favorite scene is the final one with Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep.

  • @RentFreeClips1
    @RentFreeClips1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Philip Glass is the glue that holds this film together.

  • @joshscomputer
    @joshscomputer 9 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    +Appel Granaat
    'The Hours," released in 2002. That's Nicole Kidman as Virginia (she won the Oscar and Golden Globe for it)

  • @TheAnn2shoes
    @TheAnn2shoes 9 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Many years ago I visited Monks House. My friend was doing a dissertation about the influence of Bloomsbury art on literature and we have just come away from visiting Charleston Farmhouse. We drove up the track to the house and I urged my friend to run up the path the house, because we were late and she needed to see the house more than I.
    There was one other car in the car park and I parked reasonably close to it (why do we do this?). As I turned to get out of my vehicle I sensed there was somebody in the other car. I turned around and looked into the face of Virginia Woolf, sitting in the car eating an apple. I am not sure whether she noticed me or not!
    Was it her? Was it an ardent follower or her who liked to dress like her? I shall never know, but the person I saw was the spitting image of Woolf.
    A couple of years later I telephoned Monks House and told them this story and they replied that other people had purported to see the ghost of Virginia Woolf.
    So - a mystery to this day.

  • @starman4464
    @starman4464 8 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    very beautyful, but sad, depression and sadness is a nigthmare.

    • @jirinkamignonka5988
      @jirinkamignonka5988 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      not a nightmare...but a daymare :) depression loves night and sleep. it is a little bit closer to death.

  • @sabrinafojo2490
    @sabrinafojo2490 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I think when suicide starts to call to you everything seems extremely detrimental and it consumes you. The pain that people cause you can interfere with your will and thus it starts to deteriorate your heart. That weight of the burden of unjustifiable aches in your chest, chokes your eith tears and all you want is to stop that.

    • @carmenlillymonroe9905
      @carmenlillymonroe9905 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      “…when suicide starts to call you”. You articulated that so beautifully.

  • @Time2Begin
    @Time2Begin 12 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    An absolutely gorgeous piece of writing.

  • @fas9005
    @fas9005 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    when someone can feel your pain genuinely and worry too is a great blessing not everyone can have that

  • @Anabana21yeh
    @Anabana21yeh 12 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Hey note proved how talented her words were. How unfortunate that she was such a tortured writer. To suffer for her talents. So sad :(

  • @jballard2417
    @jballard2417 8 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    This scene in the hours has taken a few 'artistic' liberties.
    At the time of her death, Woolf was 59 and greying.
    She took her life at the end of March when few plants or trees in England are either in leaf or flower.
    The Ouse at Rodmell is tidal and lined by steep, muddy banks. The landscape here is quite stark and there are few trees or hedges.
    On her last journey to the river bank, Woolf wore a fur coat and wellington boots and she used a walking stick (which was found on the river bank by Leonard, alongside her footprints in the mud going down to the water).

  • @seeuathebeach
    @seeuathebeach 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The highest human freedom should be the one allowing to decide if one wants to come into existence. Since we haven't been granted that, at least we are free to decide when to end the game💙

  • @stellahumberdross
    @stellahumberdross 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I agree. Just because some things are ''a part of life" and "it happens" doesn't mean it should be that way.

  • @youestrume
    @youestrume 13 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Espetacular! Um dos melhores filmes já feitos, a trilha sonora então nem se fala!

  • @samgallagher-wright1590
    @samgallagher-wright1590 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Brilliant reading.

  • @Godisreal123
    @Godisreal123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is a great movie

  • @vincentfisherman1928
    @vincentfisherman1928 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i can't get over this, i want to hug her so tightly

    • @seeuathebeach
      @seeuathebeach 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @khongmaithikhog5624
      @khongmaithikhog5624 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@seeuathebeachsmile what. Damn you 😮

  • @debsmile12
    @debsmile12 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Perfect!

  • @Mitlond1
    @Mitlond1 13 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Florence + The Machine - What the Water Gave Me ^^

  • @neil73
    @neil73 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I agree. I had a good reason to pick on VW though: I'm doing a module on Modernism at uni and so far have enjoyed it, until Mrs Dalloway crossed my path! Still, one must remain objective and at least try!

  • @chad3232132
    @chad3232132 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Respect - going out like a boss.

  • @chloe9549
    @chloe9549 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Heartbreaking

  • @EventCalendar
    @EventCalendar 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I have been set free from suicide! JESUS did it!

    • @kristianjennings4407
      @kristianjennings4407 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Steve Andrews Jesus doesn't want us to die until his timing! God has great plans for you! God bless!

  • @courtney4127
    @courtney4127 ปีที่แล้ว

    Failure wrote a song called Wet Gravity, which is about her.

  • @nestorperez6867
    @nestorperez6867 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh my God.. This is just awesome. This is not in the movie, is it? I had never seen this scene before! Really incredible.. Wow wow wow.

  • @Lanagrant-s8p
    @Lanagrant-s8p 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "Never Let Me Go" is also about her sucide...

  • @gotf
    @gotf 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @Brunasi1 That part is the most beautiful thing I've ever heard in my life.

  • @kareneboyd2548
    @kareneboyd2548 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    if I were going out that'd be the way I'd do it

  • @orbit3386
    @orbit3386 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    'The best thing to do...'

  • @hagfish_
    @hagfish_ 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That's good, and it's probably healthier not to take our aggressions out on the dead.

  • @neil73
    @neil73 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks - you are right, of course. I had reason to lash out at VW though; I'm doing a module on Modernist writers at uni, and was enjoying it until Mrs Dalloway crossed my path. Still, one must try to be objective about these things!

  • @ataberkin
    @ataberkin 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    and ..incredibly good .............

  • @BossALKENO
    @BossALKENO 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The tragedy is that he would have stood by her regardless.

  • @ennisdelmar773
    @ennisdelmar773 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    It is the very first scene of the film..you must have been getting popcorn.

  • @MultiMusicalheart
    @MultiMusicalheart 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    thanks!

  • @Lealea883
    @Lealea883 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sure doesn't mean we must put it on some sort of pedestal

  • @MissDenisaB
    @MissDenisaB 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Anyone crying here but me? (I can't even type something more like English ... ew it's a nonsense) I'M CRYING MY HEART OUT

  • @aaronxalapa
    @aaronxalapa 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Julianne Moore is just bloody perfect here

  • @andres070700
    @andres070700 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    such a good video m8

  • @akumthonglongkumer9365
    @akumthonglongkumer9365 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Time took her to where the water was .... Florence and the machine...
    What the water gave us

  • @MalolaAnime
    @MalolaAnime 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What's the name of the song??
    The Poet Acts????

  • @neil73
    @neil73 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Rants are funny aren't they? Sorry, I'll remove the comment. I was feeling a bit depressed when I woke up, but am better now! yay!

  • @terrywestbrook-lienert2296
    @terrywestbrook-lienert2296 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    😥😥😥

  • @aaronxalapa
    @aaronxalapa 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    I meant in the movie

  • @yorktown99
    @yorktown99 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was Nicole Kidman. Moore played the 1950s housewife.

  • @nisiriti
    @nisiriti 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    allways!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @maryjoycaprechosumayod1308
    @maryjoycaprechosumayod1308 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    is this a movie?

  • @MrPedzan7
    @MrPedzan7 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    which film is this, please?

    • @nonlinear5469
      @nonlinear5469 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Appel Granaat The hours

  • @SARA00151
    @SARA00151 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nichole Kidman

  • @SteelRaider17
    @SteelRaider17 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    But suicide ... It doesn't end pain. It just shifts pain. Her pain is going to be his pain now. Do people ever ask before killing themselves, do they ask their parents, siblings, lovers, friends, that can you live without me? Truth is everybody can live on, but can they live on happily? No they don't. A part of them doesn't want to find out. A part of them is too tired. And people say that you should let such people go, people who are caged in their existence. But I've heard it being said, I've rarely seen it being done because the pain shifts before the person can even think. The pain shifts too quickly, bereavement is the first emotion that comes and crashes in waves; understanding is a long long way down. And the path to that understand is the most hellish one.

    • @michelaspaziani7895
      @michelaspaziani7895 ปีที่แล้ว

      Should someone live in suffer forever only for avoiding other people to suffer?

  • @finnapple3927
    @finnapple3927 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bye earth . bye

  • @MultiMusicalheart
    @MultiMusicalheart 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    yep, Swampy.

  • @hagfish_
    @hagfish_ 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don't really enjoy her writing that much (maybe one day I will), so I can sympathize.

  • @Choices2aa
    @Choices2aa 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    She could have made a better choice! Why kill herself? Nicole Kidman played her and she won an Oscar for her performance as Virginia Woof. This is her suicide note.

  • @jansmiths8629
    @jansmiths8629 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    however, her attempt at sylvia plath was a desecration.

    • @barcyorky
      @barcyorky 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Wasn't that Gwyneth Paltrow?

  • @CarTa3
    @CarTa3 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why did she kill herself even though she was going to go back to London with Leonard?

  • @Jessicaunarex
    @Jessicaunarex 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a shit film. Nice letter, but holy moly cliches abound.