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Emotion Quotes



"I drive around the streetsan inch away from weeping,ashamed of my sentimentality andpossible love."


"There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me."


"Your eyes are like heavy rain falling from pregnant clouds. With one glance, you washed awaythe poems I chalked on the groundand drowned all my beliefs.Now, I only scribble your name and believe in your truth. I know nothing but you."



"Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?"


"The internet is 95 percent porn and spam."


"She was just...hurt. And tired of feeling as if she wasn't good enough to officially mate with. It was no wonder her wolf was going insane."


"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 closer you got to someone, the more it would destroy you when they were inevitably gone."


"Beware of those who are bitter, for they will never allow you to enjoy your fruit."



"Nico clenched his sword. Sharing his secret crush hadn't been the worst of it. Eventually he might have done that, in his own time, in his own way. But being forced to talk about Percy, being bullied and harassed and strong-armed simply for Cupid's amusement - Tendrils of darkness were now spreading out from his feet, killing all the weeds between the cobblestones. Nico tried to rein in his anger."


"A little muzhik was working on the railroad, mumbling in his beard. And the candle by which she had read the book that was filled with fears, with deceptions, with anguish, and with evil, flared up with greater brightness than she had ever known, revealing to her all that before was in darkness, then flickered, grew faint, and went out forever."


"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."


"I am a bed of sparks you breathe upon and kindle."


"Once you're lost, you panic. You're in total despair, not knowing what to do. I hate it when that happens. Sex can be a real pain that way, 'cause when you get in the mood all you can think about is what's right under your nose - that's sex, all right."


"Almost all sadness comes from feeling sorry for oneself."


"Underneath the sky, so void of light, the rain soaked me through. I held on to the railing and felt calm, even content, and then he had to reach through the dark, raise my temperature and make my heart beat a little bit faster. Not very gallant I should say...especially so close to bedtime. Friend or not, should he rob me of sleep, I'll be sure to take his."


"Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle."


"As if this great outburst of anger had purged all my ills, killed all my hopes, I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world- and finding it so much like myself, in fact so fraternal, I realized that I'd been happy, and that I was still happy. For the final consummation and for me to feel less lonely, my last wish was that there should be a crowd of spectators at my execution and that they should greet me with cries of hatred."


"Where are you going?" he asked."To break someone's heart," I replied."


"I don't smile. Why tempt her to friendship?"


"When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds."


"Whatever belief we have actually stems from the thankfulness that we feel and this feeling further attracts more happy feelings towards us."


"I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all."



"They laughed too, even Rose Dear shook her head and smiled, and suddenly the world was right side up. Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears."


"Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got."


"Your moods and colors are my climate, not the changing face of the sky."



"It wasn't my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it."


"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."


"She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman."


"One gets so hopelessly tired of deception."
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