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Virginia Woolf Quotes about Age

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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

Virginia Woolf
Insanity, Age, Veils
Virginia Woolf (1984). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1936-1941”, Harcourt

I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.

Virginia Woolf
Age, Found
Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.521, Wordsworth Editions

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

Virginia Woolf
Birthday, Hard Work, Age
Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.26, Oxford University Press

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Virginia Woolf
Time, Age, Aging
Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Virginia Woolf
Time, Age, Essentials
Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement between the two the whole fortune of his works depend.

Virginia Woolf
Nice, Two, Age
Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.264, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand six hundred and twenty-three million human beings who are, according to statistics, at present in existence, and that ... takes time.

Virginia Woolf
Years, Age, Statistics
Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.85, Oxford University Press, USA

There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.

Virginia Woolf
Past, Choices, Age
Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.27, Oxford University Press

It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.

Virginia Woolf
Play, Age, Impossible
Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.592, Wordsworth Editions

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