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Emotion Quotes


"Beauty is wishing for loneliness without any regret and complains."


"Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts."


"One who loves lives a thousand years in one day, one who hates only lives one day in a thousand years."


"I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other."


"Suffer" he commanded seductively. "With me...or because of me."



"Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right."


"An unpleasant experience will often reveal your passion."


"Vashti was seized with the terrors of direct experience. She shrank back into the room, and the wall closed up again."



"Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch."


"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater."But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy."


"I've had enough adventures," said Noxon, "to know that boredom is the closest thing to happiness. Boredom means that there's nothing wrong. You're not hungry, you're not in pain. Nobody's making any demands on you. Your mind is free to think whatever you want. The only thing that makes boredom unpleasant is if you're impatient for something else to happen."


"I don't own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of feeling unthinkingly. I don't want to drown. My head is my heart's lifebelt."


"What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don't want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don't want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you."


"I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray."


"I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length."


"We feel more than we can express, we see more than we can say."


"The best vaccine against anger is to watch others in its throes."


"Eleanor let his words hit her full on."


"Smile is the arch of an arrowed heartTears are waters to make pain's life start."


"I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below."


"Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here."


"My father was dead, my mother was dead, I would need for a while to watch for mines, but I would still get up in the morning and send out the laundry. I would still plan a menu for Easter lunch. I would still remember to renew my passport. Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life."


"Do not be disappointed if no one appreciates your true feelings, because they do not deserve them."


"Our sadness won't be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain."


"Bring me the wine, tonight I drink all without dreaming you."


"Love is the greatest drug; joy is the strongest medicine; virtue is the noblest remedy; together, they are the greatest therapy."


"There is no stress. It is a misinterpretation of a situation. Just change your perception and stress will melt away."


"There is no guilt in feelings ever."



"Tears welled in his eyes. It was like watching chocolate melt."
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