Emotion Quotes - Page 38

• The sensible part of me wanted to dissect my emotions, overthinking and overcomplicating my reaction to Jev.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Overthinking, Reactions, Sensible

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• He inhaled her scent, uncaring of the blood and dirt and grime that permeated her hair and clothing. He was holding her. Finally holding her. “You’re real. You’re real.” She pulled away, looked up at him, the same answering emotion shining in her blue eyes. With a groan, he lowered his mouth to hers. He couldn’t hold back. Nothing in the world would have kept him from kissing her in that moment. He was overcome.

  Maya Banks

  Real, Eye, Kissing

  Maya Banks (2012). “Maya Banks KGI”, p.1063, Penguin

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• If someone offered you a pill that would make you permanently happy, you would be well advised to run fast and run far. Emotion is a compass that tells us what to do, and a compass that perpetually stuck on north is worthless.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Running, Pills, Would Be

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• An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up then wither on the vine. You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fall, Optimistic, Expectations

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• A frightening menagerie, my emotions are Too many and varied to number Like creatures they crawl and they fly above Tearing my body asunder.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Numbers, Body, Menagerie

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• Oh," he said to Kiyo, voice completely devoid of emotion. "I see. It's your turn again.

  Richelle Mead

  Voice, Said, Turns

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.1025, Zebra Books

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• I watched their reactions and emotions, especially to understand what was what I was doing wrong. But then I realized that if I could see these people and take note of everything I saw, I could write a good song.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Writing, People

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• Keeping your emotions all locked up is something that’s unfair to you. When you clearly know how you feel. You should say it.

  Taylor Swift

  How You Feel, Unfair, Should

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• We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Real, Expression, Poet

  Gaston Bachelard (2014). “The Poetics of Space”, Penguin

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• Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will befall them?' 'Good heavens, Poirot,' I cried, 'this is a matter of life and death. What does it matter what happens to our clothes?' 'You have no sense of proportion Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder.

  Agatha Christie

  Hands, Clothes, Life And Death

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• There is no such thing as privacy between a deity and his worshipper. There are no secrets, no glossed-over failures. Only promises kept and abandoned, sins committed and imagined, and raw emotion. How many of us are ready to have our lives judged? What would happen if we were found wanting?

  Ilona Andrews

  Secret, Promise, Deities

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.193, Penguin

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• How can I tell Bob that my happiness streams from having wrenched a piece out of my life, a piece of hurt and beauty, and transformed it to typewritten words on paper? How can he know I am justifying my life, my keen emotions, my feeling, by turning it into print?

  Sylvia Plath

  Hurt, Feelings, Pieces

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.22, Anchor

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• Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn't reciprocate, and end up in confusion.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Dream, Men, Confusion

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.30, Revell

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• Why do things this beautiful make me want to cry?" I asked Michael as I leaned into him. It was an unguarded question, one I'd never have asked of Hugh. "I don't know," said Michael. "Maybe beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts. Maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside.

  James Patterson

  Beautiful, Heart, True Beauty

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• You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.

  Lionel Shriver

  Different, Matter, Rhetoric

  Lionel Shriver (2010). “We Need To Talk About Kevin”, p.32, Profile Books

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• A body is merely a vehicle. The deepest emotions are experienced through the soul.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Soul, Body, Vehicle

  Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Hades”, p.340, Macmillan

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• Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

  John Grisham

  Recovery, Years, Addiction

  Twitter post from Jul 14, 2016

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• For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated.

  Anais Nin

  Creativity, Reality, Drug

  "The Novel of the Future". Book by Anais Nin, 1969.

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• I guess the most amazing thing about crying though is that when you're in it, you think it'll go on forever but it never really lasts half what you think. Not in terms of real time. In terms of real emotions, it's worse than you think, but not by the clock.

  William Goldman

  Real, Thinking, Forever

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.285, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Thinking, Intellect, Feels

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• It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.

  Thomas Hardy

  Dream, Matter, Spinning

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.76, Thomas Hardy

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• Patience means restraining yourself. There are seven emotions, Joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate. If a man doesn't give way to these, he's patient. I'm not as strong as I might be but I'm patient.

  James Clavell

  Strong, Hate, Grief

  James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.1131, Dell

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• Feelings aren't good or bad. They're just weak or strong. Love, for example, is weak: someone loves you, you love them back, you're happy for a while, and then it fades away. But if one of those lovers betrays the other, then you have a real emotion - then you have something powerful, something that leaves a mark you'll never be rid of. Betrayal is the most delicious of all, but it takes a while to set it up, and fear can be just as intense if you know what you're doing.

  Dan Wells

  Strong, Powerful, Betrayal

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• Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.

  Stephen King

  Heart, Mind, Hurtful

  Stephen King, Darrel Anderson (2005). “The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah”, Scribner Book Company

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• What are emotions exactly?' Lutta asked. 'Silly feelings that get in the way of actions.

  Kathryn Lasky

  Silly, Feelings, Way

  Kathryn Lasky (2010). “Guardians of Ga'Hoole #11: To Be a King”, p.119, Scholastic Inc.

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