Elizabeth Bowen
12 quotations
It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.
Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.