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Emotion Quotes


"No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories."


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



"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!"


"Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward."


"That sassy low classy, but dress real cheap-fly-n-fancy, with a chip on her shoulder -- she's just a bitterly wounded dove, wanting to be sieged by love."



"Being a harp which the least wind of emotion from another's heart could make to vibrate as readily as a radical stir in her own."



"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."


"Take bread away from me, if you wish,take air away, butdo not take from me your laughter."


"If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company."


"Love gives with its eyes closed, hate destroys with its eyes open."


"But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing."



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


"She was sitting in a dark room, curled up and her head buried on her knees. His name echoing in her mind, like a thunder over a seashore. She was torn between the happiness brought by the waves, that touched her feet and fear of losing herself in the chaos. created by the sound that shattered her whole world into pieces."


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


"Mammy was soon asleep, leaving Laila with dueling emotions: reassured that Mammy meant to live on, stung that she was not the reason. She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed."


"It made my blood boil so hot, my brain stopped working right."


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


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


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



"The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,They scorn the best I can do to relate them."


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


"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."


"Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I felt as if nature was in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul."



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


"I measure every Grief I meetWith narrow, probing, Eyes;I wonder if It weighs like Mine,Or has an Easier size."
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