All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. Elizabeth Bowen
 Greatness Irish Novelist

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

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

Elizabeth Bowen

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Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak. - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

Elizabeth Bowen

 Irish Novelist
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 Quotes

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

 
Language is a mixture of statement and evocation - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation

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 Quotes

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

 Absence
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk without loss of esteem - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk without loss of esteem

Elizabeth Bowen

 Beginning
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 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

 Irish Novelist
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

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

Elizabeth Bowen

 Hope Irish Novelist
We are minor in everything but our passions - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

We are minor in everything but our passions

Elizabeth Bowen

 Passion
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies - Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies

Elizabeth Bowen

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