Virginia Woolf Quotes About Time

Quotes about: Time

• 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

• I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beauty, Beautiful, Time

  Virginia Woolf (1980). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930”, Chatto & Windus

• One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

  Virginia Woolf

  Birthday, Time, Maturity

  Virginia Woolf (1986). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918”, Chatto & Windus

• 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

• Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.

  Virginia Woolf

  Time, Writing, Reflection

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the water, then we saw the huge blue-black bulk glide quietly under the raft right beneath our feet. It lay there for some time, dark and motionless, and we held our breath as we looked down on the gigantic curved back of a mammal a good deal longer than the raft.

  Virginia Woolf

  Time, Dark, Blue

• Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.

  Virginia Woolf

  Time, Plot

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1933, Delphi Classics

• These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

  Virginia Woolf

  Time, Believe, Optimistic

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

• That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

  Virginia Woolf

  Time, Space, Childhood

  Virginia Woolf, Jeanne Schulkind (1976). “Moments of being: unpublished autobiographical writings”, Sussex University Press

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