Emotions Quotes
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"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart"
"I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them."
"One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside."
"The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it..."
"Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."
"Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else."
"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
"I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are."
"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too."
"I knew they would kill me when they found out, but…” He struggled for words, releasing a sharp breath. “I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you."
"Love is a circular emotion that surrounds you, like a hug. Or a noose."
"When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf."
"All thoughts, secret or spoken, belong in a coffee table book written in Braille, so you can really feel the emotions."
"The middle finger is a great body language tool for letting people know you’re upset. Poetry isn’t quite as effective in a fit of road rage."
"I love letting her know how much she means to me. A love in secret is but a shadow that’s cold and lonely."
"I love firm hugs. Statues are so affectionate. Well, at least compared to my ex wife."
"She looked, but she couldn’t see. She was wearing an emotional blindfold, and though she heard me say I love you, she just didn’t listen."
"I don't like hope very much. In fact, I hate it. It's the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard. It's bad news. The worst. It's sharp sticks and cherry bombs. When hope shows up, it's only a matter of time until someone gets hurt."
"Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel."
"I lost interest in her because she said the wrong thing. She said nothing."
"The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be."
"I am an extremely sincere individual. I am sincere, to a fault. One of the many things that I have come to realize, to learn, is that sincerity must be reserved and given only to those who deserve it. And one must save one's emotions, channeling them only to the people who are worthy of it. One must not throw one's pearls to the pigs."
"Her and I, we have a two chairs and a table kind of love. You should pull up a feeling and have a seat."
"In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it."
"The size of your sighs tell how deeply you’re in love. How I feel is very much like a stressed and distressed midget trying to breathe."
"I wrote you a love letter. I used invisible ink to show I was being transparent with my feelings. And also to hide my feelings."
"Love may make you feel blue, love may make you feel green, and sometimes love may even make you feel turquoise or teal. Depression and envy get all the pretty shades of description, and I love that, but in a pink/purple kind of way."
"Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise..."
"Trying to hide my feelings to avoid getting hurt just ends up hurting not only myself—but also the person I am hiding my feelings from."
"Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people's opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions!"
"She said she'd love me forever. That was two days ago, so I should probably ask her again if she still feels the same way."
"Apparently I’m transparent—with my feelings, not with my body. I’m an emotional ghost, and if you can’t see my love for you it’s because it’s dead."
"How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation."
"It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us."
"Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard."
"The sun always shines above the clouds."
"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions."
"Love will find you eventually, I guarantee it. That’s why you need to buy an invisible cloak from me for the one-time low price of $77,777.77. Offer valid for emotional invalids only."
"Every night I pray I whisper into a megaphone, not only so God is sure to hear, but also my neighbors, because I pray to God He’ll deliver pestilence and plague to the residents next door. I even tell God the exact address, as if He can’t read my heart. But it’s not for His benefit, it’s for my neighbors’."
"Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them."
"I could be in the middle of a spiritual hurricane, my soul torn and tormented, but when I see you smile it's blue skies for miles. You give me a tsunami of emotions, and my heart is trying to find peace through crashing waves, but they always end up in a cyclone that never dies.-Jarod Kintz and Karen Quan"
"The heart sees what the eyes do not, and the heart hears what the ears cannot. Sight and sound are vibrations, and so is love."
"One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. “They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die."
"The words “I love you” swim and swarm as they swirl and form fluidly, and if you are thirsty then how I feel about you is an extra large—with free refills."
"When you look at the past without God’s eyes, you subject yourself to deception. The past no longer exists and God doesn’t linger there. However, Satan will show you whatever you want to see and believe, so you will be trapped in an emotion that cannot communicate truth, beyond what you want to remember."
"I fall in love with you four times a year: winter, spring, summer, and fall. The leaves may change, but how I feel about you does not."
"A pitcher throws baseballs, but a pitcher also holds liquid. My emotions are so fluid I wonder how large the pitcher would have to be to hold my heart. Probably 6’3”."
"Today, many will choose to live free of conditions and rules governing their own happiness. Why not you? Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people's opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions! Today's a new day!"
"I hide how I feel, and I hide the fact that I hide how I feel, but I can't bury the past without having a funeral of the heart."
"I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying."
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