Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

Some guys fall in love with one girl, I gotta fall for two.

I've been in a few love triangles. I've been in a love quadrilateral.

I do think it is possible to be in love with two people at the same time.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

Being in love with a lot of people is incompatible with a stable family life.

I've had more than one girlfriend in my life.

When you're in love, you're asking someone else to fulfill all your unfulfilled needs, to make you whole, and to make you feel good about everything, and no one can do that.

Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content.

For love is sufficient unto love.

Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink.

It's a total lie to say there's only one person you're going to be with for the rest of your life. If you're lucky - and if you try really hard - there will always be more than one.

Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.

I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap

And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence.

I always just loved women, but more important than loving women, more important than sexual stuff, is I always believed in romance.

The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.

One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

[Stephanie Plum]Jeez. No True Love" [Grandma Mazur] There's always been true love, but in my day, you either talked yourself into thinking you had it, or you talked yourself into thinking you didn't need it.

You cannot be in love with love.

Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence, a mien which seems to say, "You are looking at somebody now." For this inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.

Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.

Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it.

Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.

Romantic love is one of the most exciting and fulfilling kinds of love and I think there is potential for it at any stage of your life.