Elizabeth Bowen Quotes
- When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
- Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
- We are minor in everything but our passions.
- Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
- Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
- The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
- Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
- Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
- All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
- Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
- Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
- If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.
- Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
- Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
- If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
- It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
- Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
- No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
- The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
- The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to…