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Emotion Quotes
"I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy."
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"I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them."
55
"Joy is a loyal companion, love is a faithful friend, fear is a terrible adversary, and hatred is a merciless enemy."
52
"All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning."
32
"Wit is the epitaph of an emotion."
30
"But love...it's only an illusion. A story one makes up in one's mind about another person. And one knows all the time it isn't true. Of course one knows why one's always taking care not to destroy the illusion."
25
"Fly (poem from the book Blue Bridge)Delicate, / butterfly winged, / we vainly push against the sky, / each trying to find our place.Yes, we are going to die, / let's not beat about the bush. / Maybe today, maybe tomorrow, / maybe even years from now. Meanwhile, / we have someone who loves us, / someone to love. / Surely there is no need to hesitate."
23
"My soul's a burden to me, I've had enough of it. I'm eager to be in that country, where the sun kills every question. I don't belong here."
22
"But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain."
19
"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."
18
"I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself."
18
"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything."
17
"All great and precious things are lonely."
17
"The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion."
17
"I think your program has to reflect what your basic feelings are. I'll plead guilty to that."
16
"If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company."
15
"I could always flip between emotions and be available to suddenly do something new. I think it's a part of playing, and you hang onto it when you're a kid."
15
"To dream on occasion is not dreaming, To love on occasion is not love."
14
"Love gives with its eyes closed, hate destroys with its eyes open."
14
"Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine."
14
"She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!"
14
"The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs."
14
"Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from."
13
"But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing."
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