Hope Quote by Elizabeth Bowen Download Open image “Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.” — Elizabeth Bowen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hope Impossible Love Lovers Pity Selfishness
Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“What drives us to despair is not the immensity of our unsatisfied desires, but the moment when our fledgling passion discovers its own emptiness. Insatiable desire for passionate knowledge of one pretty girl after another stems from anxiety and from fear of love, so afraid are we of never encountering anything but objects. The dawn when lovers leave each other's… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share
There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The great lovers will always be unhappy, because for them love is great and so they ask of their beloved the same intensity of… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Love is not selfish and is always willing to sacrifice for the other persons happiness. — Janelle J Copy Share Image
Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank, appoint, and finally speak all things, by their. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Lovers cannot imagine any opposition, no matter how small, to the beloved. They cannot endure to see the beloved veiled by something that causes… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
“Love is always ready to deny itself, to give, sacrifice, just in the measure of its sincerity and intensity. Perfect love is perfect self-forgetfulness. Hence where there is love in a home, unselfishness is the law. Each forgets self and lives for others. But where there is selfishness it mars joy. One selfish soul will destroy the sweetness of life… — J.R. Miller Copy Share
All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and declare it pure. — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
“Lovers are the best and worst kind of thieves, you know. That’s the trick of love, you see. An entirely new invention, every time. Rare and singular. Without prior context. Fools us into imagining we are the only ones in the history of every last forever to have ever known such a staggering sort of homecoming. The first to have… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share
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
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
“Cine a ucis stelele? Cine a surpat drumul spre viitor al celor din morminte?” — Ionel Teodoreanu Copy Share Image
“What can we do in any hardship? We can hope with prayerful praise.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“too—I realized that my only hope was to give up the life that had been, in order to make room for the life that… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth, give me hope, help me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
