Elizabeth Bowen Quotes about War

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Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.

Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.

Elizabeth Bowen

War, People, London

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

Elizabeth Bowen

War, Brain, Toxic

Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “Bowen's Court & Seven Winters”, p.221, Random House

Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignified.... after a criseof hysterical revulsion and tiredness, I passed beyondand became entered by a rather sublime feeling.

Elizabeth Bowen

Baby, Peace, War