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Elizabeth Bowen - From the Aging category:
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. (Elizabeth Bowen)
Elizabeth Bowen - From the Art category:
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting. (Elizabeth Bowen)
Elizabeth Bowen - From the Destiny category:
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. (Elizabeth Bowen)
Elizabeth Bowen - From the Dissatisfaction category:
Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't. (Elizabeth Bowen)
Elizabeth Bowen - From the Eccentricity category:
Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale - and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercourse from utter banality. (Elizabeth Bowen)
Elizabeth Bowen - From the Education category:
Education is not so important as people think. (Elizabeth Bowen)
Elizabeth Bowen - From the Excellence category:
The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better. (Elizabeth Bowen)
Elizabeth Bowen - From the Experience category:
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. (Elizabeth Bowen)
Elizabeth Bowen - From the Friendship category:
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. (Elizabeth Bowen)
Elizabeth Bowen - From the Ideas category:
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. (Elizabeth Bowen)
Elizabeth Bowen - From the Illusion category:
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. (Elizabeth Bowen)
Elizabeth Bowen - From the Innocence category:
No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden. (Elizabeth Bowen)
Elizabeth Bowen - From the Jealousy category:
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. (Elizabeth Bowen)
Elizabeth Bowen - From the Journey category:
Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it. (Elizabeth Bowen)
Elizabeth Bowen - From the Language category:
Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. (Elizabeth Bowen)
Elizabeth Bowen - From the Life category:
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. (Elizabeth Bowen)
Elizabeth Bowen - From the Loneliness category:
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 seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain. (Elizabeth Bowen)
Elizabeth Bowen - From the Memory category:
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. (Elizabeth Bowen)
Elizabeth Bowen - From the Money category:
It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets. (Elizabeth Bowen)
Elizabeth Bowen - From the Mysteries category:
No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye. (Elizabeth Bowen)
Elizabeth Bowen - From the Passion category:
We are minor in everything but our passions. (Elizabeth Bowen)
Elizabeth Bowen - From the Silence category:
Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak. (Elizabeth Bowen)
Elizabeth Bowen - From the Time category:
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. (Elizabeth Bowen)
Elizabeth Bowen - From the Uniqueness category:
Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique. (Elizabeth Bowen)
Elizabeth Bowen - From the Writing category:
If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea. (Elizabeth Bowen)
Elizabeth Bowen - From the Writing category:
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. (Elizabeth Bowen)
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