"I have sought happiness through many ages and…" — Virginia Woolf

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

— Virginia Woolf

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642 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf has 642 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly,…
If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be…
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung…
I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I…
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost…
King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to…
It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet…
To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how…
The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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