Author of quotes: Elizabeth Bowen. Page 1

To do stupid things, you don't have to fall in love - truth be told, I think people are much dumber when they're not in love, because then they don't know what.

At first we all make demands on each other that are difficult to meet, and then we tear our hearts out because of this discrepancy.

If we are to walk alone, then at least alone with pleasant thoughts.

You never know how long it will take to heal the wound of separation.

You don't need to be in two places at once, not at your age. Since you went to the sea, then be to the sea. And imagine all kinds of things when you need to imagine. In such and such a spring, as we have now, out of sight - out of mind, and it will be with you.

- I am not responsible for my smiles.

After everything turns over inside, it is very important to catch on to something unshakable. This very inviolability, the very feeling that nothing happened to these things, makes up for our confidence.

Not a single portrait from life is unsuccessful, everyone adds something new, expresses the unspoken. <...> Any face, any landscape in the worst picture is barely noticeable, but inevitably changes in the so-called real life - and the worse the picture, the stronger this change.

People who say they never betray their feelings are the most ordinary hypocrites.

... Nothing good should be expected from nimble young people ...

For those who live with hopes, it is sometimes difficult to admit that they have been fulfilled. Hope is the most dangerous form of dreaming, and when dreams come true, they come true in the real world, this difference is felt vaguely, but often very painfully.

One person's point of view will always be incomplete - when you are alone, it is difficult to make out what is funny and what is not. What love is certainly good for is the pleasure with which lovers check their impressions of what happened.

In the desire to present the beloved to society there is something primitive, in the desire to show everyone that you are loved, lies part of self-respect.

But if love were a one-of-a-kind feeling, a unique invention of two unique hearts, it would not have been given so much importance, it would not seem like a universal law. The impulse that we most willingly succumb to in life is just an impulse to experience what others have already experienced - something that we ourselves did not invent.