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Emotion Quotes


"Modesty was hardly a priority in her mind until now. Now she had been cast from Hell and again knew shame."


"People need other people to feel things for them," she said. "It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself."


"Anyone can find the bad in any situation but it takes love to see the good in all things."


"The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature."


"It was a laugh that came from the tip of his toes, gaining force and soul as it traveled through his body and out into the world in mirthful bursts. There wasn't anything fake about it; it was an amusement park of a laugh, and when it appeared, you wanted to jump on board."


"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."


"I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started."


"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."


"Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges; then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands clear."


"Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?"


"The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever."


"He captured my heart so profoundly, I couldn't even write the words to say."


"If you feel all damp and lonely like a mushroom, find the thick, creamy soup of joyfulness and just dive into it in order to make life tastier."


"I lit up like a Christmas tree-Augustus Waters."


"In certain trying circumstances urgent circumstances desperate circumstances profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer."


"They were silent, humiliated by this return of the defeated, furious at their own silence, but the more it was prolonged the less capable they were of breaking it."


"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."


"Believe me, the loss of hope is far worse than the loss of limbs."


"Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason."


"I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that."


"All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction."


"Better to be blinded by love than hate, one forgives and the other refuses."


"The longer the game went on, you got the feeling that neither side really wanted to lose."
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