Age Quotes by Virginia Woolf

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

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Virginia Woolf

“I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. ”

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Virginia Woolf

“She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged”

— Virginia Woolf

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but…

— Virginia Woolf

Altogether, the task of estimating the length of human life is beyond our capacity, for directly we say that it is ages…

— Virginia Woolf

... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement…

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Virginia Woolf

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the…

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Virginia Woolf

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and…

— Virginia Woolf

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or…

— Virginia Woolf

“now that one was mature then, said Peter, one could watch, one could understand, and one did not lose the power of…

— Virginia Woolf

We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand…

— Virginia Woolf

“Yes, our old age is not going to be sunny orchard drowse. By shutting down the fire curtain, though, I find I…

— Virginia Woolf

It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame…

— Virginia Woolf

“When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have…

— Virginia Woolf

She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like…

— Virginia Woolf

Oh and I thought, as i was dressing, how interesting it would be to describe the approach of age, and the gradual…

— Virginia Woolf

Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and…

— Virginia Woolf

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or…

— Virginia Woolf

For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer…

— Virginia Woolf