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Emotion Quotes


"Contentment is the spirit of joyful existence."


"I really am a little afraid, my dear, hinted the cherub meekly, "that you are not enjoying yourself?"On the contrary, returned Mrs. Wilfer, "quite so. Why should I not?"I thought, my dear, that perhaps your face might-""My face might be a martyrdom, but what would that import, or who should know it, if I smiled?And she did smile; manifestly freezing the blood of Mr. George Sampson by so doing. For that young gentleman, catching her smiling eye, was so very much appalled by its expression as to cast about in his thoughts concerning what he had done to bring it down upon himself."


"Give me passion -- and compassion -- any day."


"It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity."


"In the heart of appeasement there's the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression."


"Romeo save me, I've been feeling so alone. I keep waiting for you, but you never come. Is this in my head? I don't know what to think."


"Those who do not weep, do not see."


"The internet is 95 percent porn and spam."


"There was something about the music on that tape. It felt different. Like, it set her lungs and her stomach on edge. There was something exciting about it, and something nervous. It made Eleanor feel like everything, like the world, wasn't what she'd thought it was. And that was a good thing. That was the greatest thing."


"This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?""I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?""Yes," she said."That's influenza," said Miro. "Watch for nausea or diarrhea within a few hours."


"A sprinkle of last-minute despair gives a soul an agreeably earthy aftertaste."


"A heart full of bitterness is a life full of sorrows."


"What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?"


"You'll never cross an emotional bridge, if you keep rushing back to the other side."


"Let you alone! That's all very well, but how can I leave myself alone ? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?"


"It would be better alone, anything is better alone but I don't think I can handle it alone."


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


"Sing your song as you like to do,don't worry about who is listening to you."


"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."


"Don't break my heart. Crush it. Destroy it. Let me wallow it until I feel hollow in it. I'll bash in the pain. I'll scream your name and then one day I suddenly won't."



"But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaking loud."


"One last word,' I said in my horrible careful English, 'are you quite, quite sure that-well, not tomorrow, of course, and not after tomorrow, but-well-some day, any day, you will not come to live with me? I will create a brand new God and thank him with piercing cries, if you give me that microscopic hope''No,' she said smiling, 'no.''It would have made all the difference,' said Humbert Humbert.Then I pulled out my automatic-I mean, this is the kind of fool thing a reader might suppose I did. It never even occurred to me to do it."



"Imaginary happiness has an "end and real happiness is "permanent."


"Contentment is the joy of life."


"A great deal of what I say just leaves me open, I suppose, to a vast amount of misunderstanding. A great deal of what I say is based on an assumption which I hold and don't always state. You know my fury about people is based precisely on the fact that I consider them to be responsible, moral creatures who so often do not act that way. But I am not surprised when they do. I am not that wretched a pessimist, and I wouldn't sound the way I sound if I did not expect what I expect from human beings, if I didn't have some ultimate faith and love, faith in them and love for them. You see, I am a human being too, and I have no right to stand in judgment of the world as though I am not a part of it. What I am demanding of other people is what I am demanding of myself."


"Seriousness is too boring to the playful human condition. A heart of stone that has a long face can never express love."


"Ghosts are some of the loneliest people you will ever meet."
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