One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

Quote by Virginia Woolf

Topics: Maturity Quotes

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....

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

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

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over...

If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over...

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...

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend...

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend...

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...

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it...

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it...

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

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

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

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

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his...

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his...

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...

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and...

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and...

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are...

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are...

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people...

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people...

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

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

Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow.

Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow.

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all...

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all...