Elizabeth Bowen Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to have loud chords struck on them.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Girl, Luxury, Knowing

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

• One can suffer a convulsion of one's entire nature, and, unless it makes some noise, no one notices. It's not just that we are incurious; we completely lack any sense of each other's existences.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Suffering, Noise, Indifference

• We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Survival, Suffering, Desert

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

• Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Children, People, Suffering

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “Bowen's Court & Seven Winters”, p.205, Random House

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