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Emotion Quotes


"I heard the silence pouring from them. The audience held themselves quiet, tense, and tight, as if the song had burned them worse than flame.Each person held their wounded selves closely, clutching their pain as if it were a precious thing."


"Oh-my-Father-and-oh-the-delight-of-my-eyes," began the young man, muttering the words very quickly and sulkily and not at all as if the Tisroc were the delight of his eyes."


"Take bread away from me, if you wish,take air away, butdo not take from me your laughter."


"A good indignation brings out all one's powers."


"Ester asked why people are sad."That's simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams."


"Be careful of your mood and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible world."


"He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply."


"The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple."


"We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us."


"But, at the moment, when I step on the pitch, when I have the ball I know it's mine. It's just a feeling."


"I wish I felt as calm as I look."


"Some people have a thick skin and you don't. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world."


"Hate and love are reciprocal passions."


"I wouldn't mindif life left me...winglessburnt to cindersripped by stormsscattered...like weedscelestially woundedwithout cherry blossomsto perish withbut I would crywith head held in my handsif it left me...unfulfilled."


"When there was a choice between love of a woman and hate of a man, her mind could cherish only one emotion, for her love might be a subject for laughter, but no one ever had ever mocked her hatred."


"Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning."



"It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions."


"In the old days the worst part of my depression used to be the astonishment it caused me, the scandalized way in which I fought against it. Nowadays, on the other hand, I accept it cheerfully enough, like an old familiar friend."


"Men can go to hell! I'll meet them there."


"Sympathizer.It's only slightly better than the other word that followed me for years after my mom's death, a snakelike hiss, undulating, leaving its trail of poison: Suicide.A sideways word, a word that people whisper and mutter and cough: a word that must be squeezed out behind cupped palms or murmured behind closed doors. It was only in my dreams that I heard the word shouted, screamed."


"Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness."


"To ease the pain, erase the anger."


"Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free."


"Don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?.."


"And he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart."



"...his voice was like the cracking of ice on a winter lake, and the words were mocking."
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