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Quotes About Emotions

Whenever I find myself arguing for something with great passion, I can be certain I'm not convinced.
~ Hugh Prather
I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.
~ Fanny Burney
I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our own eyes at the world. And fiction is a fantastic way of looking out through somebody else's eyes.
~ Neil Gaiman
Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.
~ Albert Camus
Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.
~ Philibert Joseph Roux
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
~ Barbara Corcoran
Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb
~ Seneca the Younger
Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me.
~ Louise Gluck
Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.
~ Charles Dickens
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
~ Gertrude Stein
I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
~ Raine Maida
Marvel does a great job of making their characters human.
~ Timothy Miller
The message of great art is to disturb.
~ Elayne Boosler
When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
~ A. Scott Berg
Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.
~ Keira Knightley
But here's the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, 'This isn't the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don't feel happy.
~ Anna Chlumsky
Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.
~ Oscar Wilde
Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe.
~ Georg Ebers
Songs hold different memories for different people and the great ones are the ones that become a part of you and your story.
~ Georgia Nott
I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.
~ Honore de Balzac
One of the great things about drama is that it makes you feel like you're not a crackpot, and that there are other people who think and feel the way you do.
~ James Purefoy