Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. E
  4. Elizabeth Bowen
  5. Love

Elizabeth Bowen Quotes about Love

All Elizabeth Bowen Quotes Art Character Children Country Dialogue Expectations Experience Feelings Heart History Home House Imagination Ireland Language Life Literature Loneliness Love quotes Lying Memories Passion Pleasure Reading Running Silence Solitude Spring Suffering Travel Truth War Writing
When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

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

Elizabeth Bowen
Love, Relationship, Crush
Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it?

Elizabeth Bowen
Love, Ifs
Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Last September”, p.97, Random House

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

Elizabeth Bowen
Love, Selfishness, Impossible
Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.

Elizabeth Bowen
Love, Lonely, Pain
Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

You May Also Like: