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Age Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.
- A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
- 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.…
- It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
- 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.
- I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.
- For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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,…
- 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…
More Age Quotes
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and… — Francis Bacon
- The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the… — James Buchan
- Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves… — Bernard Baruch