Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

Quote by Virginia Woolf

Topics: Growing Up Quotes, Illusions Quotes, Life Quotes

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than...

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than...

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by...

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by...

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other...

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other...

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one...

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one...

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness....

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness....

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing...

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing...

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any...

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any...

Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo,...

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo,...

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is...

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is...

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing:...

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing:...

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the...

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the...

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him....

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him....

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to...

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to...

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be...

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be...

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to...

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to...

Living in the past isn't going to give you a future. Living in the future...

Living in the past isn't going to give you a future. Living in the future...

Study the past if you would divine the future

Study the past if you would divine the future