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Emotion Quotes


"I don't smile as much as I should, even though I smile inside a lot."


"I clap because I know what will happen when I stop. It's the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that I've lost myself to - which is that I'll be thrown back to my own reality and something hollow will settle in my chest. Sometimes, I'll watch a movie all over again just to recapture that feeling of being inside something real. Which, I know, doesn't make any sense."


"There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's."


"A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference."


"That one who promised to care my life and to be with in all the way. same one killed me brutally and brutally murder my heart and feelings and My Trust.Whom i must blame ? God or That person or To my Stupidity of blind trust ?Some Que Never stop tease."


"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."



"The mind doesn't harass you, your attachment-abhorrence harasses you!"


"Hatred is like fire-it makes even light rubbish deadly."


"Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity."


"Weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be."


"The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless."


"Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you."


"Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness it is a sign of emotional failure."


"I think Nesta feels everything- sees too much; sees and feels it all. And she burns with it. Keeping that wall up helps from being overwhelmed, from caring too greatly."


"Why does anger makes people pretty? Rage doesn't. Rage makes you ugly, but a little anger, that just seems to add spice. One of nature's cruelties, or maybe it's to keep us from killing each other more often."


"Her tears fell abundantly-but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it more respectable in Emma's eyes-and she listened to her and tried to console her with all her heart and understanding-really for the time convinced that Harriet was the superior creature of the two-and that to resemble her would be more for her own welfare and happiness than all that genius or intelligence could do.It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant; but she left her with every previous resolution confirmed of being humble and discreet, and repressing imagination all the rest of her life."


"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."


"Please,Tana,please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown."


"Here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair."


"Offend her and she knows not to forgive Oblige her and she'll hate you while you live."


"Be good and you will be lonesome."


"But laugh?" He pressed the flat of his hand against my stomach. "Here lives laugh." He ran his finger straight up to my mouth and spread his fingers. "Push back laugh is not good. Not healthy.""Also cry?" I asked. I traced an imaginary tear down my cheek with one finger."Also cry." He put his hand on his own belly. "Ha ha ha," he said, pressing his hand to show me the motion of his stomach. Then his expression changed to sad. "Huh huh huh," he heaved with exaggerated sobs, pressing his stomach again. "Same place. Not healthy to push down."



"If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity."


"That would be the greatest misfortune of all! - To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! - Do not wish me such an evil."


"You can't just make me different and then leave."


"Would it help, he asked gently, "to have a shoulder to cry on? She fought to conceal how much the question unnerved her. "Thank you, but no. Carefully she dropped the herbs into the kettle. "Crying is a waste of time. "' To weep is to make less the depth of grief.' "Is that a Romany saying? "Shakespeare."


"It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself."
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