Elizabeth Bowen Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Attitude, First Love, Teenage Love

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

• The silence of a shut park does not sound like country silence: it is tense and confined.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Country, Nature, Silence

  "The Death Of The Heart".

• Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Silence, Speak, Climax

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

• There is no doubt that sorrow brings one down in the world. The aristocratic privilege of silence belongs, you soon find out, to only the happy state- or, at least, to the state when pain keeps within bounds.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Pain, Silence, Doubt

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

• whenever possible I avoid talking. Reprieve from talking is my idea of a holiday. At risk of seeming unsociable, which I am, I admit I love to be left in a beatific trance, when I am in one. Friendly Romans recognize that wish.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Holiday, Talking, Ideas

• Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Silence, Stranger, Taxi

  Elizabeth Bowen (1952). “The house in Paris”

• Silences can be as different as sounds.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Silence, Sound, Different

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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