Quote by Elizabeth Bowen Download Open image ““You know, even grown-up people cannot do what they want most" "Then why grow up?”” — Elizabeth Bowen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Because growing up means making tough choices, and doing the right thing doesn’t necessarily mean doing the thing that feels good.” — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
“Not everybody gets to grow up. First you have to survive your childhood, and then begins the hard work of growing into it.” — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
“When you're a kid, you don't get to do anything. When you're a grown-up, you don't want to do anything.” — Tony Taylor Copy Share Image
“I don’t want a grown-up person at all. A grown-up won’t listen to me; he won’t learn.” — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“Because some people never grow up, or not in a way that allows them to develop the courage of their convictions.” — Dan Fesperman Copy Share Image
“When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.” — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
“Growing up means situations and people change, problems are bigger, feelings are deeper and the hurt devastating.” — Bailey Copy Share Image
“you don’t grow up until you stop worrying about other people’s purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for… — Orson Scott Card 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
