"Lonely was much better than alone."

Emotions, Loneliness, Companionship, Choice, Feeling

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"I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

Emotions, Anxiety, Fear, Life, Night

"Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all."

Alan Moore, British Writer

Emotions, Happiness, Illusion, Reality, Truth

"Anguish heart attack is tightly packed on to people with actions full of emotions and personal tragedies yet they can overcome it with personal self esteem and nice thinking."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Emotions, Emotion, Tragedy, Thinking, Overcoming

"Ilse was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Emotions, Pain, Suffering, Universe, Justice

"Milly Brush once might almost have fallen in love with these silences."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Emotions, Silence, Love, Romance, Solitude

"There is such a thing as emotional rubbish; it is produced in the factories of the mind. It consists of pain that has long since passed and is no longer useful. It consists of precautions that were important in the past, but that serve no purpose in the present."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Emotions, Emotion, Pain, Past, Present

"Hatred may keep a body warm, but it takes a lot to keep the fire stoked, so unless a person is extraordinary in some way, some people are not worth hating, just like they're not worth loving."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

Emotions, Hate, Love, Emotion, Energy

"I don't understand my sudden obsession with staring at her, but i can't seem to stop."

Colleen Hoover, American Celebrity

Emotions, Obsession, Attraction, Emotion, Love

"You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things."

Ann Brashares, American Author

Emotions, Pain, Truth, Happiness, Reality

"Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream."

Euripides, Greek Poet

Emotions, Hope, Memory, Dream, Love

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"Make a difference about something other than yourselves."

Empathy

"I loved the geography part. Learning about that made me want to read."

Education

"I'm a Midwesterner, and everyone in Ohio is excited. I'm also a New Yorker, and a New Jerseyan, and an American, plus I'm an African-American, and a woman. I know it seems like I'm spreading like algae when I put it this way, but I'd like to think of the prize being distributed to these regions and nations and races."

Identity

"We don't need any more writers as solitary heroes. We need a heroic writer's movement: assertive, militant, pugnacious."

Activism

"Passion is never enough neither is skill."

Excellence

"She looked around for a place to be. A small place. The closet? ... It was both small and bright, and she wanted to be in a very small, very bright place. Small enough to contain her grief.Bright enough to throw into relief the dark things that cluttered her.Once inside, she sank to the tile floor next to the toilet. On her knees, her hand on the cold rim of the bathtub, she waited for something to happen inside."

Grief

"I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that."

Feminism

"Guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness."

Identity

"Birth, life, and death- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf."

Nature

"This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me what your position is. You've got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it. This is about being a complex human being in the world, not about finding a villain. This is no time for anything else than the best that you've got."

Art