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Emotion Quotes


"Because I know something that you don't know. I know that this is the worst experience of your life, but I also know that someday you'll move past it and you'll be fine. And helping somebody likej you through the worst experience of her life is incredibly gratifying."


"Once you're lost, you panic. You're in total despair, not knowing what to do. I hate it when that happens. Sex can be a real pain that way, 'cause when you get in the mood all you can think about is what's right under your nose - that's sex, all right."


"The love of a half dead heart will keep you half alive."


"I didn't like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea."


"Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other."


"Nothing much bothered you for a while and you kept walking like a silhouette through this town, saying hi's and goodbyes, acting polite at all times. But there is no fire in your heart; you are not very concerned."


"There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings."


"All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me. I loathe Somnus, that black-masked headsman binding me to the block; and if in the course of years I have got so used to my nightly ordeal as almost to swagger while the familiar axe is coming out of its great velvet-lined case, initially I had no such comfort or defense: I had nothing - save a door left slightly ajar into Mademoiselle's room. Its vertical line of meek light was something I could cling to, since in absolute darkness my head would swim, just as the soul dissolves in the blackness of sleep."


"As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all."


"But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality."


"I wish I felt as calm as I look."


"I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal."



"Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow."


"I am sorry to tell you this thing. Youu are a good man, and a pretty thing. But still, you are only a man. All you have to offer the world is your anger."


"We all have human emotions that rob our lives."


"Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins."


"Holding the eveningtremblingly close to mei weepinto the sun lettingthe burdenof hopelift off my chesti realizethis is what it meansto be free."


"He was like an autumn without leaves, he was unreal!"


"Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood on the ground are gone, inundated and carried away by that rush of water. And still the rain beats down on the surface of the river. Every time you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That's it. That's my heart."


"The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome."


"I am somewhat exhausted, I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?"


"It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock."


"He was not crying for the pain they had caused him, nor for the humiliation he had suffered when they looked at his foot, but with rage at himself because, unable to stand the torture, he had put out his foot of his own accord."



"The trouble with being patient is that eventually you get tired of it."



"And sometimes when I feel that much emotion, something inside of me just snaps."


"I was always the child who wore her emotions on her sleeve."
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