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Emotion Quotes

"For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy."

"For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Emotion, Ecstasy, Balance, Life

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"I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple."

"I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple."

Gillian Flynn, American Author

Emotion, Indifference, Distance, Feeling

27

"Dreams can twist your emotions like no reality can."

"Dreams can twist your emotions like no reality can."

Neal Shusterman, American Author

Emotion, Dream, Imagination, Intensity

27

"All terrible things are more terrible if they give us no chance of retrieving a blunder-either no chance at all, or only one that depends on our enemies and not ourselves. Those things are also worse which we cannot, or cannot easily, help. Speaking generally, anything causes us to feel fear that when it happens to, or threatens, others causes us to feel pity."

"All terrible things are more terrible if they give us no chance of retrieving a blunder-either no chance at all, or only one that depends on our enemies and not ourselves. Those things are also worse which we cannot, or cannot easily, help. Speaking generally, anything causes us to feel fear that when it happens to, or threatens, others causes us to feel pity."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Emotion, Fear, Pity, Help, Tragedy

27

"Her weakness was aggressive and kept forcing him to capitulate until eventually he lost his strength and was transformed into the rabbit in her arms ."

"Her weakness was aggressive and kept forcing him to capitulate until eventually he lost his strength and was transformed into the rabbit in her arms ."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

Emotion, Weakness, Power, Love, Control

27

"But what is it that drives haters crazy with rage? Many times, it's being ignored. To a person with pride, being ignored is often worse than out-and-out hate; it's that much more of an insult, that you're not even worth noticing."

"But what is it that drives haters crazy with rage? Many times, it's being ignored. To a person with pride, being ignored is often worse than out-and-out hate; it's that much more of an insult, that you're not even worth noticing."

Bill Maher, American Comedian

Emotion, Pride, Insult, Anger, Truth

27

"Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations."

"Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations."

Samuel Ullman, American Poet

Emotional, Feelings, Ability, Act, Dignity

27

"Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous."

"Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Emotion, Grief, Exhaustion, Life, Sadness

27

"To her credit, though, Trace didn't lose her famous temper, not at that moment. At eighteen she was already expert at the older woman's art of fermenting rage, conserving it, for later use."

"To her credit, though, Trace didn't lose her famous temper, not at that moment. At eighteen she was already expert at the older woman's art of fermenting rage, conserving it, for later use."

Zadie Smith, British Novelist

Emotion, Temper, Control, Discipline, Observation

27

"I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed."

"I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

Emotion, Depression, Feeling, Honesty

27

"I'm bored with it all. - Last Words"

"I'm bored with it all. - Last Words"

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Emotion, Boredom, Reflection, Existence, End

27

"With jealousy, a parasite takes root in your heart. It becomes a cancer that eats away at your soul."

"With jealousy, a parasite takes root in your heart. It becomes a cancer that eats away at your soul."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Emotion, Jealousy, Heart, Soul

27

"You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache."

"You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

Emotion, Mystery, Life, Feeling

27

"Somehow, it seems that the sadder a song is, the happier I feel. The release of emotions that many would label as "negative" is actually a liberating process for me."

"Somehow, it seems that the sadder a song is, the happier I feel. The release of emotions that many would label as "negative" is actually a liberating process for me."

Grey DeLisle, American Musician

Emotional, Emotions, Song

26

"In one of his darker moments, the irony started him laughing and he couldn't stop, and the sounds that came from him, before finally tapering into sobs, were so far from mirth they might have been the forced inversion of laughter-like a soul pulled inside out to reveal its rawest meats."

"In one of his darker moments, the irony started him laughing and he couldn't stop, and the sounds that came from him, before finally tapering into sobs, were so far from mirth they might have been the forced inversion of laughter-like a soul pulled inside out to reveal its rawest meats."

Laini Taylor, American Novelist

Emotion, Irony, Laughter, Sadness

26

"There is a pain " so utter " It swallows substance up " Then covers the Abyss with Trance " So Memory can step Around " across " opon it " As one within a Swoon " Goes safely " where an open eye " Would drop Him " Bone by Bone."

"There is a pain " so utter " It swallows substance up " Then covers the Abyss with Trance " So Memory can step Around " across " opon it " As one within a Swoon " Goes safely " where an open eye " Would drop Him " Bone by Bone."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Emotion, Pain, Memory, Life

26

"My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring."

"My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Emotion, Darkness, Release, Devil

26

"For me, it was a lonely season. Whenever I got home and took off my clothes, I felt as if any second my bones would burst through my skin. Like some unknown force inside me had taken a wrong turn somewhere, and was leading me off in some strange direction to another world."

"For me, it was a lonely season. Whenever I got home and took off my clothes, I felt as if any second my bones would burst through my skin. Like some unknown force inside me had taken a wrong turn somewhere, and was leading me off in some strange direction to another world."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Emotion, Loneliness, Force, Change, Life

26

"Maddie swallowed hard and tried to channel which actress? Damn, she couldn't think of anactress to save her life! She was on her own."

"Maddie swallowed hard and tried to channel which actress? Damn, she couldn't think of anactress to save her life! She was on her own."

Jill Shalvis, American Novelist

Emotion, Anxiety, Independence, Focus, Determination

26

"Once I had a love affair with myself.I was left heart broken."

"Once I had a love affair with myself.I was left heart broken."

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

Emotion, Love, Self, Heartbreak

26

"I'm sorry," he says. "I don't usually like people. So when I do, part of me is really amused and the other part refuses to believe it's happening."

"I'm sorry," he says. "I don't usually like people. So when I do, part of me is really amused and the other part refuses to believe it's happening."

David Levithan, American Author

Emotion, People, Amusement, Social

26

"In the next place, wonderful as it seems in a sexual world, the Martians were absolutely without sex, and therefore without any of the tumultuous emotions that arise..."

"In the next place, wonderful as it seems in a sexual world, the Martians were absolutely without sex, and therefore without any of the tumultuous emotions that arise..."

H. G. Wells, English Author

Emotion, Observation, Detachment, Experience

26

"The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?"

"The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?"

Franz Kline, American Artist

Emotional, Emotions, Painting

26

"The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest."

"The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest."

William Blake, English Poet

Emotional, Harvest

26

"One of the symptoms of having a broken-heart is the fact that even ghosts will give up on the hope of scaring you as you have already lived through your worst fear."

"One of the symptoms of having a broken-heart is the fact that even ghosts will give up on the hope of scaring you as you have already lived through your worst fear."

Faraaz Kazi, Indian Author

Emotion, Observation, Truth, Wisdom

26

"If the heart could think it would stop beating."

"If the heart could think it would stop beating."

Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese Author

Emotion, Heart, Thought, Logic

26

"What killed people wasn't a bullet, a blade, a fist to the face. What killed people was a feeling. Left too long. Sometimes in the cold, frozen. Sometimes buried and fetid. And sometimes on the shores of a lake, isolated. Left to grow old, and odd."

"What killed people wasn't a bullet, a blade, a fist to the face. What killed people was a feeling. Left too long. Sometimes in the cold, frozen. Sometimes buried and fetid. And sometimes on the shores of a lake, isolated. Left to grow old, and odd."

Louise Penny, Canadian Author

Emotion, Feelings, Isolation, Death

26

"What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."

"What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."

George Eliot, British Author

Emotion, Despair, Hope, Pain

26

"February 13, 1936I ask of people more than they can give me. It is useless to maintain the contrary. But what a mistake and what despair. And myself perhaps...Seek contacts. All contacts. If I want to write about men, should I stop talking about the countryside? If the sky or light attract me, shall I forget the eyes or voices of those I love? Each time I am given the elements of a friendship, the fragments of an emotion, never the emotion or the friendship itself."

"February 13, 1936I ask of people more than they can give me. It is useless to maintain the contrary. But what a mistake and what despair. And myself perhaps...Seek contacts. All contacts. If I want to write about men, should I stop talking about the countryside? If the sky or light attract me, shall I forget the eyes or voices of those I love? Each time I am given the elements of a friendship, the fragments of an emotion, never the emotion or the friendship itself."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

Emotion, Friendship, Love, Communication

26

"Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard."

"Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard."

Jennifer Donnelly, American Author

Emotion, Hope, Desire, Illusion

26

"I have been like a mediocre concert pianist playing in front of a tone-deaf family, who applaud out of duty rather than for accomplishment."

"I have been like a mediocre concert pianist playing in front of a tone-deaf family, who applaud out of duty rather than for accomplishment."

Chris Murray, Irish Author

Emotion, Performance, Recognition, Failure, Accomplishment

26

"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."

"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."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Emotion, Sleep, Fear, Comfort, Darkness

26

"Joy of life is to be content."

"Joy of life is to be content."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Emotional, Joy, Contentment, Life, Peace

26

"I am overachieving at aimlessness, I am a type-A, alpha-girl lollygagger, the leader of a gang of heartbroken kids, running wild across this lonely strip of amusements, each of us smarting from the betrayals of a loved one."

"I am overachieving at aimlessness, I am a type-A, alpha-girl lollygagger, the leader of a gang of heartbroken kids, running wild across this lonely strip of amusements, each of us smarting from the betrayals of a loved one."

Gillian Flynn, American Author

Emotion, Heartbreak, Youth, Struggle

26

"Inner turbulence leads to anger."

"Inner turbulence leads to anger."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Emotional, Turbulence, Anger, Inner, Emotion

26

"A smile is a song from the heart, a tear is a letter from the soul."

"A smile is a song from the heart, a tear is a letter from the soul."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Emotional, Smile, Song, Heart, Tear

26

"Feelings, like waves, look more substantial than they are."

"Feelings, like waves, look more substantial than they are."

Peter Kreeft, American Philosopher

Emotion, Feelings, Change, Reality

26

"Amy! My God! My God! My darling!' and buried my face in her neck, my arms wrapped tight around her, and let the cameras get their fifteen seconds, and I whispered deep inside her ear, 'You fucking bitch."

"Amy! My God! My God! My darling!' and buried my face in her neck, my arms wrapped tight around her, and let the cameras get their fifteen seconds, and I whispered deep inside her ear, 'You fucking bitch."

Gillian Flynn, American Author

Emotion, Anger, Betrayal, Love

26

"I will not say: do not weep, for not all tears are an evil."

"I will not say: do not weep, for not all tears are an evil."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Emotion, Tears, Evil, Acceptance, Sorrow

25

"Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be."

"Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

Emotion, Happiness, Mindset, Choice, Mentality

25

"You cannot judge a man by his smile, but you can judge a man by his heart. The smallest actions reveal the most about a heart's true color, so pay attention to them. Actions are the true words of the heart."

"You cannot judge a man by his smile, but you can judge a man by his heart. The smallest actions reveal the most about a heart's true color, so pay attention to them. Actions are the true words of the heart."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

Emotion, Judgment, Heart, Action, Truth

25

"This is where the whole thing entered into a vicious cycle, for her proximity always inebriated the hearts, thus only deepening their desire to remain hostages in the cage so that they could booze even more on that beauty."

"This is where the whole thing entered into a vicious cycle, for her proximity always inebriated the hearts, thus only deepening their desire to remain hostages in the cage so that they could booze even more on that beauty."

Pawan Mishra, Indian Author

Emotion, Desire, Beauty, Behavior, Observation

25

"I feel like I'm walking on eggs and can't take another step."

"I feel like I'm walking on eggs and can't take another step."

Bill Buckner, American Athlete

Emotional, Walking

25

"The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too."

"The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too."

Vincent van Gogh, Dutch Artist

Emotion, Heart, Truth, Wisdom, Observation

25

"I felt very lonely when they were all there."

"I felt very lonely when they were all there."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Emotion, Loneliness, Isolation, Sadness

25

"I do not write feelings, emotions i do not writeAfter that day on love anything i do not writeMy silence scream somewhere inside me These are my Bloody wounds on paper,words i do not write."

"I do not write feelings, emotions i do not writeAfter that day on love anything i do not writeMy silence scream somewhere inside me These are my Bloody wounds on paper,words i do not write."

Mohammed Zaki Ansari, Indian Writer

Emotion, Silence, Pain, Expression, Art

25

"His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before."

"His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

Emotion, Perception, Connection, Love

25

"Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat."

"Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Emotion, Anger, Control, Truth

25

"Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- Men with tired eyes realize it now, and wait to deform and decay- with maybe they have the power of love yet in their hearts just the same, I just don't know what that word means anymore- All I want is an ice cream cone."

"Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- Men with tired eyes realize it now, and wait to deform and decay- with maybe they have the power of love yet in their hearts just the same, I just don't know what that word means anymore- All I want is an ice cream cone."

Jack Kerouac, American Novelist

Emotion, Nostalgia, Love, Uncertainty

25

"Don't bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions."

"Don't bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Emotion, Intensity, Gift, Life

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