Alain de Botton Quotes About Emotions

Quotes about: Emotions

• Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.

  Alain de Botton

  Book, Emotion, Good Book

  Twitter post from Oct 13, 2013

• It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver - because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia to try to experience directly. Literature is the greatest reality simulator - a machine that puts you through infinitely more situations than you can ever directly witness.

  Alain de Botton

  Reality, Years, Giving

• A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.

  Alain de Botton

  Suicide, Animal, Inability

  Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.113, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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