Virginia Woolf Quotes

Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

Nothing is forever, but history is forever.

Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Nothing ever goes away.

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time.

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

Art is eternal, but life is short.

The game was here long before I was, and will be here long after I'm gone.

Time is long but life is short.

Tomorrow is shallow, but today is as deep as truth.

Words have a longevity that I do not have.

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

Life is short and art is long.

Life doesn't last, art doesn't last

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Time is flying never to return.

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

Oh, I'll be forgotten too, don't worry.

Time stays, we go.

Art is longer than life.

We die only once, and for such a long time.