Foolishness Quote by Elizabeth Bowen Download Open image ““He feels spikes everywhere and rushes to impale himself.”” — Elizabeth Bowen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Foolishness Pain Socially-inept
“His body jerks twice as the bullets hit him. I scream, but no sound leaves my mouth. I'm frozen in pure terror.” — Sarah Hunter Hyatt Copy Share Image
“There is a blinding flash, a pain that rips through me for one searing instant, a silent scream from my broken body. For the… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“He felt crazy sometimes. Real depravity. Late at night an electric sizzle came into his blood, a tight pumped-up killing rage, and he couldn't… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Gasping, whimpering, crying out his name, clawing at his skin . . . I fucking burned.” — Madeline Sheehan Copy Share Image
“He could feel his stomach churning. I’m repressing things, he thought. Along with everything else I don’t have time for. I’m searching for the… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“... but there lies a pain and longing in his eyes, a look of horror as he sees a batlike form crawl to its… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“In my private apocalypse he will be impaled upon his own nightstick.” — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
“You died. I cried. And kept on getting up. A little slower. And a lot more deadly.” — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
“After what felt like an eternity, he turned slowly. Pain etched his face. For a heartbreaking moment, I thought I was too late. But… — Jessica Hawkins Copy Share Image
“His hand appears and wraps around my wrist, and my whole bloody body bursts into flames.” — Jodi Ellen Malpas Copy Share Image
Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Are you really an orphan? Yes, I am, said Portia a shade shortly. Are you? No, not at present, but I suppose it's a… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Every love has a poetic relevance of its own; each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies the junk-yard… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or,… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences,… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
You can never understand why people do stupid things for love, Unless you, yourself experience how it is to be in LOVE... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The magi, as you know, were wise men — wonderfully wise men — who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Acknowledging foolishness is a very powerful and important experience. We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
There are petty-minded people who cannot endure to be reminded of their ignorance because, since they are usually quite blind to all things, quite… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
