Author: Elizabeth Bowen

Quotes

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

- Elizabeth Bowen

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

- Elizabeth Bowen

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

- Elizabeth Bowen

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

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

- Elizabeth Bowen

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

- Elizabeth Bowen

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

- Elizabeth Bowen

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

- Elizabeth Bowen

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

- Elizabeth Bowen

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

- Elizabeth Bowen

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