Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen
| 'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies runs with one, walks gravely with another turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame it wounds one, another it kills like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning for there is no force able to resist it. |
| No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye. |
| The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart. |
| It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights. |
| Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have. |
| Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do. |
| If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. |
