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

Quote by Virginia Woolf

Topics: Growing Up Quotes, Illusions Quotes, Life Quotes

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.

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...

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to...

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to...

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details...

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details...

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

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

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

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.

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?

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...

Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

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...

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

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

Language is wine upon the lips.

Language is wine upon the lips.

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

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

A woman must have money and a room of her own.

A woman must have money and a room of her own.

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

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?

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.

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well...

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well...

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact...

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact...