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Emotion Quotes


"Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony."


"To ease the pain, erase the anger."


"I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again."



"The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener - a listener who will be silent while the irate fault - finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system."


"I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started."


"Some days simply lay on you like stones."


"Tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big goddamned weltzschermz ocean, you know? and so do you."


"I lit up like a Christmas tree-Augustus Waters."


"Those who know you see your tears even in the rain."


"Fighting is easier than loving, just as giving in to anger is easier than self-control."


"Some things are too big to be seen, some emotions are too huge to be felt."


"In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer. The one mystery of death, still unsolved, had scarcely passed before his eyes, when another mystery had arisen, as insoluble, urging him to love and to life."


"To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing."


"Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery."



"And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words."


"Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions."


"I'm sorry! I really am! I wanted to get out of this place! I want to live! I want to get away from here and never see it again! I hate everything about it!""You will hate the next place, too," I said. "What you are you will carry with you."



"And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight."


"Hate generalizes, love specifies."


"If you wanted to see me dead,you would whisper and i could kill self for you happiness it was a small thing but you made yourself corrupt for very small thing."



"Thus went my first Court Day.I think I'm going to puke."


"I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed out my words. I want to get all fucked up and write raw and ugly about all these things I see and am and could be."


"Hatred is about possession. It is all-consuming, cruel, and vainglorious. When love is allowed to fester, it becomes twisted and corrupt; it settles deep in the heart...and metastasizes, sending its dark roots through the body to raze all that stands in its way. Love is chaste and pure. Love is banal....No, hatred has infinitely more possibilities."


"I heard the silence pouring from them. The audience held themselves quiet, tense, and tight, as if the song had burned them worse than flame.Each person held their wounded selves closely, clutching their pain as if it were a precious thing."


"Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it."


"Innocent and joyfulI take your handfor I know you judge not,you simply understand.You are my companionon this voyage of discovery,singing sweet soft musicto the universe inside of me."


"Sometimes, all it takes to lift the sadness from another is to let them know how much you appreciate them and how grateful you are having them in your life."


"The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone."


"The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality."
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