Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

That’s what love’s all about. You’re the only one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.

If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

Lost in loneliness and pain. Black and unendurable, Thinking of you with every Corpuscle of my flesh, in Every instant of night And day.

The lifetime we've left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can't be wrong enough and I can't hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain.

Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

You are alone with everything you love.

I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight.

He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why.

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to.

Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?

I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.

It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.

When the people you love are gone, you're alone.

When you're in New York, there's women galore. At the end of the day, when I'm by myself or even, at times, when there was a woman next to me, I was feeling alone. It was not the same as it is with my wife. The experience is not the same; the time is not the same.

Summer is the worst time of all to be alone. The earth is warm and lovely, free to go about in; and always somewhere in the distance there is a place where two people might be happy if only they were together. It is in the spring that one dreams of such places; one thinks of the summer which is coming, and the heart dreams of its friend.

Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering?

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.