Virginia Woolf Quotes

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.

I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up.

In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.

Everybody's twelve years old in an apple orchard.

May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them - then men are old.

I envy my daughter's childhood.

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again.

I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's why I don't live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

I do think kids should be kids. You have the rest of your life to be an adult.

I grew up in a wood cabin on Puget Sound in Manchester, Wash. My family taught me to appreciate the arts and the outdoors, and I still yearn for the absolute silence I experienced there when I was young.

I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants.

I do go back to Russia frequently, about twice a year. I hate the flight, but it's worth it. My parents have a home in a little village of 12 houses. It's not on any map, so unless you know it's there, you won't find it. Nothing works there; no Internet, no cell phone, and the land line only works sometimes. It's great!

It's not so much about killing an animal, it's being at peace and you don't have to worry about all the other things that go on. That's a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it's nice to do that.

So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

In reality, I never want to grow up.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space.

Me? I'm going to grow backwards and be a kid again.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.