Elizabeth Bowen, (1899-1973), Anglo-Irish Novelist Quotes
I can't see or feel the conflict between love and religion. To me, they're the same thing.
Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.
Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates it's own objects: is this not also true of fear?
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself -- in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.
Autumn arrives in the early morning, but
spring at the close of a winter day.
Some people are molded by their
admirations, others by their hostilities.
Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.
Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.