Growing Quote by Virginia Woolf Download Open image “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.” — Virginia Woolf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Growing Growing up Illusion Life Losing Order
Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If you are not losing people and friends in life then you are not growing up. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“Growing up means learning to dig beneath surface behavior and discern the true motives of others, and to respond to intent, not behavior.” — Ramon Stevens Copy Share Image
The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
“There is no true loss in authentic growth, only the natural process of letting go, outgrowing, pruning. The call of the next level requires… — Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Growing up increases your ability to focus on important things as well as increasing your ability to let go of unnecessary things with less… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Growing up involves making a lot of mistakes and learning from them, but also involves no regrets and having a great time. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life -… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I have a strong feeling about this quick movement and changing of society and populations growing - something scary. — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me… — Cybill Shepherd Copy Share Image
I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
I felt pretty good growing up. I didnt feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind. — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image