"The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,They scorn the best I can do to relate them."

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"I was alone with myself. And disgusting as I was it was better than being with somebody else, anybody else, all of them out there doing their pitiful little tricks and handsprings."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Emotion, Loneliness, Self, Disgust, Company

"Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Emotion, Grief, Sorrow, Journey

"Hate is only misdirected energy: it gets you nowhere."

Marty Rubin, American Author

Emotion, Hate, Energy, Direction

"My eyes are open and I'm not seeing a thing because I am so lost inside."

David Levithan, American Author

Emotion, Perception, Confusion, Mind, Lost

"All the things that people do in order to show that they don't need anybody... meanwhile, all they really want to do is say, "Please keep me." We all want to be kept. The problem is we are too afraid to let anyone know about it. What are these fragile things in our hearts that have so much fear of being broken?"

C. JoyBell C., American Author

Emotion, Loneliness, Fear, Sensitivity, Heart

"When I turned to look at you, I was afraid to move again-the moment was just too beautiful to be lost."

David Levithan, American Author

Emotion, Fear, Beauty, Love

"And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart."

John Green, American Author

Emotion, Change, Sensitivity, Truth

"Then the man smiled, and his smile was a shock, for it was all on one side, going up in the right cheek and down in the left.There was nothing, rationally speaking, to scare anyone about this. Many people have this nervous trick of a crooked smile, and in many it is even attractive. But in all Syme's circumstances, with the dark dawn and the deadly errand and the loneliness on the great dripping stones, there was something unnerving in it. There was the silent river and the silent man, a man of even classic face. And there was the last nightmare touch that his smile suddenly went wrong."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Emotion, Smile, Fear, Humanity

"There's still a little girl inside every grown woman who would love to be able to fall into the arms of her mother and cry her eyes out every now and then."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

Emotion, Childhood, Women, Motherhood

"On the rebound one passes into tears and pathos. Maudlin tears. I almost prefer the moments of agony. These are at least clean and honest. But the bath of self-pity, the wallow, the loathsome sticky-sweet pleasure of indulging it--that disgusts me."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person."

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"And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud."

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"I was alone with myself. And disgusting as I was it was better than being with somebody else, anybody else, all of them out there doing their pitiful little tricks and handsprings."

"Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape."

"Hate is only misdirected energy: it gets you nowhere."

"My eyes are open and I'm not seeing a thing because I am so lost inside."

"When I turned to look at you, I was afraid to move again-the moment was just too beautiful to be lost."

"And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart."

"There's still a little girl inside every grown woman who would love to be able to fall into the arms of her mother and cry her eyes out every now and then."

"On the rebound one passes into tears and pathos. Maudlin tears. I almost prefer the moments of agony. These are at least clean and honest. But the bath of self-pity, the wallow, the loathsome sticky-sweet pleasure of indulging it--that disgusts me."

Explore more quotes by Walt Whitman

"When I give I give myself."

"Argue not concerning God, re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul."

"To have great poets there must be great audiences too."

"The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves."

"I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person."

"The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world."

"And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth."

"Urge and urge and urge,Always the procreant urge of the world."

"I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake."

"And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud."