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

Quote by Virginia Woolf

Topics: Growing Up Quotes, Illusions Quotes, Life Quotes

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering...

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering...

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

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

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine...

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine...

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following...

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following...

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

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...

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes...

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes...

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...

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

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...

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that...

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that...

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is...

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is...

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.