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Virginia Woolf Quotes about Growing Up

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

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

Virginia Woolf
Growing Up, Order, Losing

They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.

Virginia Woolf
Children, Growing Up, Long
Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.277, Wordsworth Editions

When she read just now to James, 'and there were numbers of soldiers with kettledrums and trumpets,' and his eyes darkened, she thought, why should they grow up, and lose all that?

Virginia Woolf
Growing Up, Grows, Loses
"Selected Works of Virginia Woolf".

Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just as the way they were, demons of wickedness, angels of delight, never to see them grow up into long-legged monsters.

Virginia Woolf
Growing Up, Angel, Two
Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1028, Delphi Classics

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