Elizabeth Bowen quotes

" When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. " # Love

" If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. " # Life and Living

" Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. " # Growth # Freedom # Power

" Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do " # Arts and Artists # Love # Life and Living

" No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye. " # Mystery

" This is the worst of love, this unmeant mystification — someone smiling and going out without saying where, or a letter arriving, being read in your presence, put away, not explained, or: "No, alas, I can't to-night" on the telephone — that, one person having set up without knowing, the other cannot undo without the where? who? why? that brings them both down a peg. Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. " # Love

" It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. " # Emotions # Home # Sentiment

" Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. " # Experience

" Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. " # Fate # Famine # Animals

" All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. " # Greatness # Freedom # Power