Quotes by Bowen, Elizabeth

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. >>

Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hu >>

Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and >>

Quotations about Loneliness

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one >>

Strife is better than loneliness. >>

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome. >>

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.

Bowen, Elizabeth