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

Quote by Virginia Woolf

Topics: Growing Up Quotes, Illusions Quotes, Life Quotes

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...

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming,...

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming,...

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

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:...

As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.

As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most...

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most...

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing...

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing...

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole...

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole...

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion...

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion...

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions...

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions...

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...

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and...

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and...

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us....

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us....