Elizabeth Bowen Quotes about Passion

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We are minor in everything but our passions.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Elizabeth Bowen

Passion, Literature, Minors

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

Dress has never been at all a straightforward business: so much subterranean interest and complex feeling attaches to it. As a topic ... it has a flowery head but deep roots in the passion. On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do. ... Ten minutes talk about clothes (except between perfect friends) tends to make everyone present either overbearing, guarded or touchy.

Elizabeth Bowen

Passion, Roots, Clothes

As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with "characters," or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another sense, who would be incapable of a major action or a major passion, or who have not a touch of the ambiguity, the ultimate unaccountability, the enlarging mistiness of persons "in history." History, as more austerely I now know it, is not romantic. But I am.

Elizabeth Bowen

Passion, Character, History