Virginia Woolf Quotes

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

I still find it quite easy to find my way into a child's imagination. We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects. Everybody should keep some grip on childhood, even as a grownup.

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.

I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.

When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

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

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the case with a lot of kids. The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older.

Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.

Fairy tales were important to me. Aren't they for any kid? My sister says I spent a good five years of my youth convinced I would grow up to be a princess.

To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. I suppose we all realize the degree to which fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

It's such a potent thing, to be a kid. We grow up, and we don't want to remember how everything is so beautiful and terrifying when we're young. The older you get, the more you hope to muffle things.

I've never been more than 9 years old.

I suppose you always look back at how easier things were being young. There's always a shame that you're not as naive as you were.

Persona-wise, I represent a lot of people's childhoods.

I used to love getting older.