Moments of being can be found in all Virginia Woolf's fiction. Examples from her novel “Mrs. Dalloway” are to be found especially in the two main characters that are most receptive to moments of being: Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus. Clarissa experiences a moment of being while she in a middle of what appear to be trivial acts, indicating that it is not the action, but her awareness that sets a moment of being apart from other experiences. For example as Clarissa watches taxi cabs pass by she finds them "absolutely absorbing." Her thoughts reveal that "what she loved was this, here in front of her, the fat lady in the cab …” Throughout the day Clarissa is particularly aware of these threads of connection between herself and her surroundings.

The moments of being are marked by particularly vivid and powerful language, because these are moments of exact feeling, the language used to convey them must naturally be precise and evocative; the form and content must be in perfect symmetry; in her moments of being Virginia Woolf uses a language that approaches poetry.