Death

"Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death" (Woolf, 184).

Much of this novel talked about how people either lost, wanted, or hated time. In death, people find the end of time, because there is nothing, everything just stops, or at least, everything changes. Whatever happens when we die, it will be different from the lives we lead now. (Edit) Virginia Woolf herself took her own life, and many of her ideas spilled over into her novels. Many of the characters in Mrs. Dalloway wanted an escape, and in death they will find one.