"Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible."
― Elizabeth Bowen
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Hope
― Elizabeth Bowen
More From Elizabeth Bowen
- "Experience isn’t interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."
- "Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain."
- "Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk."
More In Hope
- "I also hope that I am occasionally involved in projects that touch other people in ways that make their lives a little better, more interesting for the moment that makes them think."― Jim Caviezel
- "Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace."― Frank B. Kellogg
- "If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don’t do it, and it won’t happen."― Desiderius Erasmus