Virginia Woolf Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Time, Women

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories”, p.33, Courier Corporation

• But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

  Virginia Woolf

  Happiness, Past, Thinking

• She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking some past stage on this adventurous, long, long voyage, this interminable --- this interminable life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Past, White, Long

  Virginia Woolf (1996). “Mrs Dalloway”, p.118, Wordsworth Editions

• A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

  Virginia Woolf

  Insanity, Age, Veils

  Virginia Woolf (1984). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1936-1941”, Harcourt

• It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

  Virginia Woolf

  Birthday, Hard Work, Age

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.26, Oxford University Press

• Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

  Virginia Woolf

  Time, Age, Aging

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

  Virginia Woolf

  Time, Age, Essentials

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Long, Wish

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.628, Wordsworth Editions

• Oh and I thought, as i was dressing, how interesting it would be to describe the approach of age, and the gradual coming of death. As people describe love. To note every symptom of failure: but why failure? To treat age as an experience that is different from the others; and to detect every one of the gradual stages towards death which is a tremendous experience, an not as unconscious, at least in its approaches, as death is.

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, People, Interesting

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4523, Delphi Classics

• It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

  Virginia Woolf

  Birthday, Running, People

  1922 Jacob's Room, ch.6.

• Altogether, the task of estimating the length of human life is beyond our capacity, for directly we say that it is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fall, Long, Rose

  "Orlando: A Biography".

• So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treachery, and the sacrifice of wealth and chastity which used to be said to be the greatest of human disasters, a mere flea-bite in comparison.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Sacrifice, Hair

  Virginia Woolf, Hermione Lee (2000). “A room of one's own and other essays”

• I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.

  Virginia Woolf

  Age, Found

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.521, Wordsworth Editions

• Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and gazes at his wife and son, who, very distant at first, gradually come closer and closer, till lips and book and head are clearly before him, though still lovely and unfamiliar from the intensity of his isolation and the waste of ages and the perishing of the stars, and finally putting his pipe in his pocket and bending his magnificent head before her—who will blame him if he does homage to the beauty of the world?

  Virginia Woolf

  Stars, Hero, Book

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “To the Lighthouse”, p.28, Virginia Woolf

• It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years?... What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

  Virginia Woolf

  Hero, Men, Thinking

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1012, Delphi Classics

• We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand six hundred and twenty-three million human beings who are, according to statistics, at present in existence, and that ... takes time.

  Virginia Woolf

  Years, Age, Statistics

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.85, Oxford University Press, USA

• There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.

  Virginia Woolf

  Past, Choices, Age

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.27, Oxford University Press

• ... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement between the two the whole fortune of his works depend.

  Virginia Woolf

  Nice, Two, Age

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.264, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.

  Virginia Woolf

  Play, Age, Impossible

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.592, Wordsworth Editions

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