Virginia Woolf Quotes about Time

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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Virginia Woolf

Beauty, Beautiful, Time

Virginia Woolf (1980). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930”, Chatto & Windus

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

Virginia Woolf

Life, Time, Women

Virginia Woolf (2012). “Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories”, p.33, Courier Corporation

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

Virginia Woolf

Birthday, Time, Maturity

Virginia Woolf (1986). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918”, Chatto & Windus

Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.

Virginia Woolf

Time, Writing, Reflection

Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Virginia Woolf

Time, Believe, Optimistic

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

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

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

Virginia Woolf

Time, Space, Childhood

Virginia Woolf, Jeanne Schulkind (1976). “Moments of being: unpublished autobiographical writings”, Sussex University Press

The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the water, then we saw the huge blue-black bulk glide quietly under the raft right beneath our feet. It lay there for some time, dark and motionless, and we held our breath as we looked down on the gigantic curved back of a mammal a good deal longer than the raft.

Virginia Woolf

Time, Dark, Blue