31 Quotations by Elizabeth Bowen
- 1. Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
- 2. All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted ...
- 3. Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
- 4. Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.
- 5. Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
- 6. Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself -- in fact, till it does that, it hardl ...
- 7. Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
- 8. For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.
- 9. Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been ha ...
- 10. I can't see or feel the conflict between love and religion. To me, they're the same thing.
- 11. If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
- 12. Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
- 13. Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk withou ...
- 14. It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pock ...
- 15. It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
- 16. Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
- 17. Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.
- 18. No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
- 19. Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
- 20. Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
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