Quotes by Elizabeth von Arnim

Elizabeth von Arnim

… Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.

Going Away

Littles

Unselfish

… without it (love), without, anyhow, the capacity for it, people didn’t seem to be much good. Dry as old bones, cold as stones, they seemed to become, when love was done; inhuman, indifferent, self-absorbed, numb.

Love

People

Self

[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside.

Journey

Moving

Taken

And the summer seems as though it would dream on for ever.

Dream

Seems

Summer

Beauty made you love, and love made you beautiful.

And Love

Beautiful

Made

Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.

Book

People

Suits

But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.

Book

Reading

Sitting

For I’m afraid of loneliness; shiveringly, terribly afraid. I don’t mean the ordinary physical loneliness, for here I am, deliberately travelled away from London to get to it, to its spaciousness and healing. I mean that awful loneliness of spirit that is the ultimate tragedy of life. When you’ve got to that, really reached it, without hope, without escape, you die. You just can’t bear it, and you die.

Fear

Healing

Loneliness

Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand.

Friendship

Guests

Hands

Home is the best place when life begins to wobble.

Best Place

Home

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And Love

Angel

Asking

Beautiful

Beauty

Believe

Best Place

Blessing

Blood

Book

Bored

Boys

Clever

Clouds

Compost

Conventional

Decent

Dog

Dream

Educational

Exercise

Fear

Firsts

Form

Friendship

Funny

Garden

Giving

Going Away

Gone

Greater

Guests

Hands

Healing

Heart

Home

Hurt

Impossible

Independent

Intelligent

Journey

Littles

Loneliness

Lonely

Love

Love Is

Love You

Lying

Made

Marriage

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Quotes by Elizabeth von Arnim

Elizabeth von Arnim

… Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.

… without it (love), without, anyhow, the capacity for it, people didn’t seem to be much good. Dry as old bones, cold as stones, they seemed to become, when love was done; inhuman, indifferent, self-absorbed, numb.

[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside.

And the summer seems as though it would dream on for ever.

Beauty made you love, and love made you beautiful.

Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.

But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.

Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand.

Home is the best place when life begins to wobble.

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