Elizabeth Bowen Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Art, Feelings, Literature

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

• Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be relied on to flutter the lunch party. Whatever will he say next? How does he think of those things? He has been deplored once or twice, but feeling is in his favor: he is steadily read. He is at once the truly clever person and the stupid person's idea of the clever person; he is expected to be relentless, to administer intellectual shocks.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Clever, Stupid, Party

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

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Jealousy, Loneliness, Envy

  House in Paris (1935) pt. 2, ch. 8

• It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Home, Emotions Feelings, Sentiments

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

• The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Respect, Self, Feelings

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

• In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Religious, House, Feelings

  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

• Wariness had driven away poetry; from hesitating to feel came the moment when you no longer could.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Feelings, Moments, Driven

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Heat Of The Day”, p.55, 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

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