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Emotion Quotes


"The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever."



"I might say something in Spanish; it all depends on how I'm feeling, what the situation is."


"I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience."



"I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it."


"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."


"I may not be perfect, but I am worthy."



"why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives."


"There are as many kinds of anger as there are of the sunsets with which they ought to end."



"There is no bitterness like that of man who finds out he has been believing in a ghost."


"I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me."


"Take any emotion-love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I'm going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions-if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them-you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. "But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, 'All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment'."


"My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean."


"The hearts that never lean must fall."


"When there was a choice between love of a woman and hate of a man, her mind could cherish only one emotion, for her love might be a subject for laughter, but no one ever had ever mocked her hatred."


"Love and hate when stretched to their extremes blind reasoning."


"I looked at his face, unsure of how many more of his smiles I'd have."


"Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh."


"People need other people to feel things for them," she said. "It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself."


"Give mea moon-blanket nightto keep me warma long-gone smileto comfort mea pair of rain-blue eyesto haunt mea simple soul...to love me."



"Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it."


"I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions."


"I never work better than when I am inspired by anger when I am angry I can write pray and preach well for then my whole temperament is quickened my understanding sharpened and all mundane vexations and temptations depart."



"Many people would have to hang by their teeth from a frayed cord suspended by a paper clip from a leaking hot air balloon over the Grand Canyon in order to feel what I feel standing on the third step of a stepladder trying to put millet in the bird feeder."


"Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears."


"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."


"But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?"
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