"Pity is cruel. Pity destroys."

Emotion, Pity, Destruction, Truth

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"Causes for attachment are created at the very time abhorrence occurs. Familiarity (acquaintance) up to a certain point will result in attachment and if it reaches 'ridge point' & goes past further, it will result in abhorrence."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Emotion, Attachment, Abhorrence, Life, Truth

"I can hear your angered silence,Taste your bitterness.Now I smell your vengeance,Yet see your lonely emptiness.I am your broken heart."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Emotion, Anger, Silence, Heart

"The fears we keep alive, will be a recurring haunt until it dies, or we do."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

Emotion, Fear, Mortality, Life

"Jealousy is love in competition."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Emotion, Truth, Inspirational, Power, Wisdom

"Belikov is a sick, evil man who should be thrown into a pit of rabid vipers for the great offense he commited against you this morning.""Thank you." I said primly. Then, I considered. "Can vipers be rabid?""I don't see why not. Everything can be. I think. Canadian geese might be worse than vipers, though.""Canadian geese are deadlier than vipers?""You ever try to feed those little bastards? They're vicious. You get thrown to vipers, you die quickly. But the geese? That'll go on for days. More suffering.""Wow. I don't know whether I should be impressed or frightened that you've thought about all of this."

Richelle Mead, American Author

Emotion, Anger, Humor, Animals, Suffering

"You want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you're wounded by your own feelings & resentful others don't seem to care..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

Emotion, Change, Feelings, Resentment

"I realised I got anxious because my true aspiration wasn't to become the chief of a multi-billion dollar, multi-national company that created widgets or some shit."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Emotion, Anxiety, Aspiration, Self, Reflection

"And you finally get there, you reach a point where you refuse to feel anymore pain and the desire to chase happiness out weighs any choice that gives you reason to question where you're headed."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

Emotion, Pain, Happiness, Choice, Desire

"Nico's voice was like broken glass. "I- I wasn't in love with Annabeth.""You were jealous of her," Jason said. "That's why you didn't want to be around her. Especially why you don't want to be around... him. It makes total sense."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Emotion, Truth, Regret, Love, Today

"The hate in heart can consume you not outside events."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Emotion, Hate, Heart, Fear

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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

Thought, Character

"Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are."

Life,

"Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing."

People, Talk

"They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness."

Love, God, Kindness, Saying

"In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!"

Love, Peace, Democracy, Years

"Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love--it's being unhappy together."

Love, Pain, Connection, Emotion

"When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity " that was a quality God's image carried with it. When you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination."

Empathy, Pity, Imagination, Hate, God

"The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching."

Education, Books, Reading, Influence, Knowledge

"A man becomes trustworthy when you trust him."

Ethics, Trust, Character, Relationship, Truth

"Even though my reason wanted the state of death, I was afraid like a virgin of the act. I would have liked death to come with due warning, so that I could prepare myself. For what? I didn't know, nor how, except by taking a look at the little I will be leaving."

Mortality, Death, Fear, Preparation, Reflection