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Emotion Quotes


"I had embraced you...long before i hugged you."



"He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy."


"All our sentiments - religious, romantic or any other - are born in the neurons."


"Baby , In your eyes Sweet memories of the good times we had."


"Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot."


"It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity, But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable."


"I was so much in the habit of having Albertine with me, and now I suddenly saw a new aspect of Habit. Hitherto I had regarded it chiefly as an annihilating force which suppresses the originality and even the awareness of one's perceptions; now I saw it as a dread deity, so riveted to one's being, its insignificant face so incrusted in one's heart, that if it detaches itself, if it turns away from one, this deity that one had barely distinguished inflicts on one sufferings more terrible than any other and is then as cruel as death itself."


"I hate in-the-end kindnesses: they're about as nourishing as the third day of cold mutton."


"So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked."


"When you say you believe, you allow the possibility of disappointment. And from disappointment or betrayal, there may come despair. Such is the way of the mind."



"It wasn't my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it."


"You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!"


"When you smile, I become unconscious and I cannot open my eyes. Where is the justice!"



"Some of you say, 'Joy is greater thar sorrow,' and others say, 'Nay, sorrow is the greater.'But I say unto you, they are inseparable.Together they come, and when one sits, alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed."


"I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life."


"Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!"


"If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she'd never ever be able to operate like a normal person again."


"It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."


"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."


"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."


"I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy."


"The end occurred mostly in her whispers and his silence - because he couldn't whisper and they didn't want to wake Colin's parents. They succeeded in staying quiet, in part because it felt like the air had been shocked out of him. Paradoxically, he felt as if his getting dumped was the only thing happening on the entire dark and silent planet, and also as if it weren't happening at all. He felt himself drifting away from the one-sided whispered conversation, wondering if maybe everything big and heartbreaking and incomprehensible is a paradox."


"How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of his books - gets to be in charge of the world's destiny? Or of the entire universe's?"If he's not very good, why didn't you stop at one?"Mrs. Tassenbaum smiled. "TouchA©. He is readable, I'll give him that - tells a good story..."


"She is not with me,this grief is not bigger then this happiness that she is with her choice."


"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart."


"In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries."


"Only people of a certain disposition are frightened of being alone for the rest of their lives at twenty-six, we were of that disposition."


"You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word and a blow. But the thing that rankles is hurt vanity. That sticks. Humiliation. And we've all got a sore spot we don't like to have touched."


"Sometimes the anxiety takes over and I can't seem to fathom the love he gives me."
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