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Emotion Quotes


"If I have to mourn for only ONE person,Then I choose EVERYONE."



"I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers."


"And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through."


"We need the life. We need to know what we take left someone weaker or dead. It reminds us what we were. The Hunger when you start out, it isn't in the stomach or brain. You want to kill because you hate that others get to live."



"There is a place in the heart thatwill never be filleda spaceand even during thebest momentsandthe greatest timestimeswe will know itwe will know itmore thaneverthere is a place in the heart thatwill never be filledandwe will waitandwaitin that space."


"Disappointment is a blessing. If you were never disappointed, you'd never know what was important to you."


"Our souls are always looking for love, and hearts wait to treasure it."


"If you throw a stone into the ocean, it will reach the bottom; if you throw a word into someone's heart, it will reach their soul."


"Bitter people are not interested in what you say, but what you hide."


"Men are always ready to fight, it's tenderness that scares them."


"There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on."


"Kindness is as simple as being grateful for the love anyone has shown you, by not destroying them because it isn't on your terms."


"Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's voice speaking disdainfully in my ear: So this is what you gave up everything for? This is why you gutted our entire life together? For a few stalks of asparagus and an Italian newspaper? I replied aloud to him: "First of all," I said, "I'm very sorry, but this isn't your business anymore. And secondly, to answer you question...yes."


"Joy is immeasurable cheerfulness."


"Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony."


"There are 2 kinds of fighters: those who fight because they hate, and those who fight because they love."


"Anger has great strength, but no brains. Greed has many hands, but no heart. Fear has many titles, but no honor. Hate has many forms, but no soul."


"The problem with beauty is you will always be in trouble, when you don't know what beauty is."


"Don't let your tears be seen, it may hurt someone else's happiness."


"Resentment is the little fire that can transform and destroy the world by becoming a wildfire."


"Cynicism springs from disappointments in love."


"Still am I the richest and most to be envied - I, the lonesomest one!"


"This is all so CHILDISH PATHETIC. YOU'RE EMBARASSING. GET OVER IT GET OVER IT GET OVER IT. But he did not quite know what "it" was."


"In state of deep depression, I stayed alone; my time was occupied with reading sacred books."


"I wanted to get angry, this guy pushed me so hard."


"As a poet there is something about joy I find hard to express, whereas every other emotion is rather simple. For instance, you never feel so bad that you can't describe how bad you feel, but joy on the other hand is far too divine for human language."


"Pleasure can turn the body into a slave. Desire can turn the mind into a fool. Passion can turn the heart into a beast. Love can turn the soul into an angel."


"A Neuroscientist can be the smartest man (or woman) on earth in his understanding of the human mind. He may know all the neurochemical changes underlying an outrageous behavior of a person. But when he gets mad himself, very little of his own scientific intellect would actually come in handy for him to control his rage. The virtue of self-control is a skill, which requires practice, regardless of all the neurobiological expertise in the world."


"I don't like how he holds on to her and don't like how long he's holding. That doesn't look like brotherly love to me. I stare at his girl. Why is she so damned happy to see her guy hugging someone else?"


"You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself."


"Look at the ugliness. Yet one has a feeling within one that blinds a man while he loves you. You, with that feeling, blind him, and blind yourself. Then, one day, for no reason, he sees you as ugly as you really are and he is not blind anymore and then you see yourself as ugly as he sees you and you lose your man and your feeling..."
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