Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

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

When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out. - Elizabeth Bowen

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out. - Elizabeth Bowen

We are minor in everything but our passions. - Elizabeth Bowen

VNothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it. - Elizabeth Bowen

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone. - Elizabeth Bowen

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

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round. - Elizabeth Bowen

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. - Elizabeth Bowen

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart. - Elizabeth Bowen

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