Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

I know what it's like to have a broken heart. I know what it's like to feel pain: When my songs don't become hits, it breaks my heart. There are a million ways to break a heart. I can relate.

I love seeing love. I had this one girl that I was really tryna go hard with, but it wasn't it.

I really do think that putting expectations on a holiday is setting yourself up for failure.

When you work on a passion project, there's always the chance that you'll get your heart broken.

I worked out of Hollywood for 10 years and I had my heart broken half a dozen times, so I know all the things that can go wrong.

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people.

I think with any sort of rejection, you're angry that you weren't enough for that person.

I've spent so much of my youth trying to change people or change girls and then having it done to me and people wanting me to change.

I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

Paper Moon didn't bring me love.

I've also learned that sometimes, no matter how much you want things to work, you have to accept that sometimes they just don't.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.

Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

We have this idealized romanticism about how love might solve all of our problems, but then it doesn't.

There is so much heartbreak and letdown in this industry. You get your heart set on something, and then you're sitting by the phone for three weeks and it never rings.

Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction - only disappointment.

I'm very hard on myself. Sometimes too hard on myself. When I lost in the Wimbledon finals, I was so sad, I cried. I had the runner-up trophy! It's still a great accomplishment, but I was so mad.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

That's the dating world. You just keep losing. Everyone does.

I like to save people, to take care of them... So, the pattern is that I date guys before they become big, and then they become successful and - whoops - there goes my project!