Virginia Woolf Quotes

My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.

Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m.

We really can't boil a man's life down to seasonal divisions of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Seasons cycle perennially, and we enjoy them because they recur. We should understand a man's life this way too. An elderly person may yet see new springs and summers. On the other hand, some young people never escape winter. Others become ensnared by their own private autumns.

I think March and fall are natural seasons for me to feel invigorated.

Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.

I think your emotion changes from person to person. As you get older, a lot of people become cynical because of the experiences they have had and haven't been able to let go of, whether they've been cheated on or whether it hasn't worked out. It's so easy to turn around right now and say, "Just let it go."

Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.

We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.

I think that just your tastes change as you get older and I think they'll continue to change.

Autumn is a hint from God to Old Age.

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

When you're 16, you think 28 is so old! And then you get to 28 and it's fabulous. You think, then, what about 42? Ugh! And then 42 is great. As you reach each age, you gain the understanding you need to deal with it and enjoy it.

With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed - that's sort of the root of age.

If you think hitting 40 is liberating, wait until you hit 50; and I was surprised at how liberating it was. The anticipation of something is always much worse than the reality.

The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.

We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.

As you get older, you get a bit more serious.

I think I have better taste now than I did then.

The older I grow the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?

Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn.

It is autumn; not without But within me is the cold. Youth and spring are all about; It is I that have grown old.

As a woman, when you embrace where you are in life, then I think the struggle [life] isn't so hard. If you're 42 and still think you're an ingenue, then you've got a problem.

I think time just goes faster and faster. I'm saying this a few months away from my fortieth birthday. I don't know when and if one's identity ever does catch up with one's actual age. Personally I feel like I just got the hang of thirty-five.