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Emotion Quotes
"The more we identify and acknowledge moments when we're unable to share in someone else's pleasure and ask ourselves whether another person's happiness truly jeopardizes our own, the more we pave the way for experiencing sympathetic joy."
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"There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at his desk. It was a self-absorption with no comfort, a demand for expression with no outlet, a sense of time rushing by, ceaselessly and wastefully - assuaged only by that conviction that there was nothing to waste, because all efforts and attainments were equally valueless."
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"Love in fools is better than hate in the wise."
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"...there was apparent in all a sort of anxiety, a softening of the heart, and a consciousness of some great, unfathomable mystery being accomplished... the most solemn mystery in the world was being accomplished. Evening passed, night came on. And the feeling of suspense and softening of the heart before the unfathomable did not wane, but grew more intense. No one slept."
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"Happiness is such a fragile thing, isn't it? So easily burst, like a bubble blown by a child, and always on the verge of being carried away."
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"She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it."
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"In the closeness of the passage, the queen could smell the other woman's perfume, a musky scent that spoke of moss and earth and wildflowers. Under it, she smelled ambition."
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"His day, usually a jelly-like creature, a shapeless, spineless thing, had attained Mesozoic structure. It was marching along surely, even jauntily, toward a climax, as a play should, as a day should. He dreaded the moment when the backbone of the day should be broken, when he should have met the girl at last, talked to her, and then bowed her laughter out the door, returning only to the melancholy dregs in the teacups and the gathering staleness of the uneaten sandwiches."
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"Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is."
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"For though your mind is active enough, your heart is darkened with corruption, and without a pure heart there can be no full or genuine sensibility."
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"One emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture."
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"I didn't fear you. I feared us. I feared what could have been. I feared what could be. I feared the connection we had between each other. The toxicity because I could grasp the danger."
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"Compliments land assoft and gentle on my earsas a butterfly."
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"You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here."
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"To an unmoored, middle-aged man like myself, it was heart-breaking. That's all right. I like to have my heart broken."
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"The scariest thing about distance is that you don't know whether they'll miss you or forget you."
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"He spoke in hard and angry earnest, if a man ever did," replied the girl, shaking her head. "He is an earnest man when his hatred is up. I know many who do worse things; but I'd rather listen to them all a dozen times, than to that Monks once."
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"If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be mt flowers."
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"She laughed. 'It won't last. Nothing lasts. But I'm happy now.''Happy,' I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception--especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far too relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home with these, because they're scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a priest or a fool to use them with any confidence."
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"Wherever negative thoughts go, negative feelings always follow."
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"Contentment is the greatest joy."
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"How do you let go of anger? How do you release a fury you've been standing on for so long, you would stumble were it yanked away?"
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