Elizabeth Bowen: Quotes about feelings

Elizabeth Bowen was Irish writer. Explore interesting quotes on feeling.
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“A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.”

Elizabeth Bowen book The Death of the Heart

Source: The Death of the Heart

Love , Women , Feeling

“This is the worst of love, this unmeant mystification — someone smiling and going out without saying where, or a letter arriving, being read in your presence, put away, not explained, or: "No, alas, I can't to-night" on the telephone — that, one person having set up without knowing, the other cannot undo without the where? who? why? that brings them both down a peg. Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.”

Elizabeth Bowen book The House in Paris

The House in Paris (1935)

Love , Jealousy , Smile , Feeling

“And yet in a way I would rather fail point blank. Things one can do have no value. I don't mind feeling small myself, but I dread finding the world is.”

Elizabeth Bowen book The House in Paris

The House in Paris (1935)

World , Way , Feeling