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Emotion Quotes


"Smile more to attract more."



"Yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut."



"Why does the forbidden always add that edge of sweetness?"


"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."


"Loneliness is not the enemy of your joy as long as you know how you should always destroy the pensive mood that remains with you like a friend who never stands up for you when you're forced to bend."


"Some looks are heavier than the thickest books because they carry the saddest stories of life!"



"She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough and which obviously cost her something."


"Every sunrise is priceless and you can experience the richness that life holds only when you live life to the full instead of just being an onlooker."


"Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him."


"The scariest thing about distance is that you don't know whether they'll miss you or forget you."


"It was a strange feeling, like touching a void."


"But it feels good just getting it out-letting someone else know how much hatred I'm harboring."


"Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery."


"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?"


"The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world's puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies."


"Fuck, Christina."Yes, fuck Christina. I think she'd like that."


"The saddest thing is to bea minute to someone,when you've made them your eternity."


"There's nothing worse than waiting and not knowing what'll happen to you. Your own imagination can be crueler than any captor."


"My heart is crushed, my knees are weakened. My tears drench my pillow, my tears flood my bed every night. Do you know how much I miss you father of my children."


"I thought of all the magazine article I'd read on mothers who worked and constantly felt guilty about leaving their children with someone else. I had trained myself to read pieces like that and silently say to myself, 'See how lucky you are?' But it had been gnawing at the inside, that part that didn't fit, that I never let myself even think about. After all, wasn't it a worse kind of guilt to be with your child and to know that you wanted to be anywhere but there?"


"Songs are as sad as the listener."


"...those children were already beginning to repay her care by affording her small joys. These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold."


"Kindness is an act to transform lives."


"It howled execration upon the dim camarine world of its nativity wail on wail while he lay there gibbering with palsied jawhasps, his hands putting back the night like some witless Paraclete beleaguered with all limbo's clamor."


"That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged."


"Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a watermill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed into good."


"A little inhumanity does not describe you as heartless, rather, it is a way of telling others that you have a heart that can get angry."


"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler."


"Humans are born with a hodge-podge of various brain circuits, that possess the seeds of peace, fear, love, hate, rage, pain, love, stress and faith. All these elements compose the emotional domain of our mental life. All these characters are ingrained in our limbic system, that keep our head straight in the path of survival. We humans can survive, only if, all these elements of our brain circuits function properly. Failure of any one element would mean extinction of the whole species."
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