Quotes About Emotions

It isn't happiness I am concerned with but experience.

There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.

When sadness comes, accept it. Listen to its song. It has something to give to you. It has a gift which no happiness can give to you, only sadness can give it.

The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.

Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go.

Happiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it's there, the next day it may not be.

My happiness is measured against my kids' happiness - when they're in a good place, I feel really good.

Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own.

How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

Albums that remind me of my childhood happiness make me incredibly sad now.

Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.

Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.

I like "Talk to Her" by [Pedro] Almodovar and "Happiness" by Todd Solondz, "Mullholland Drive" by David Lynch .

Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.

Neither a person entirely broken nor one entirely whole can speak. In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

And happiness is always louder than sadness.

Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that it's hard to tell them apart.

How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.

The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.

It broke the spell. It's not that I stopped being happy. I was still inexplicably, utterly happy. But suddenly the happiness had implications.

Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired in a well of selfpity and pain.

We've developed a very complex filing system for existence. We see things in terms of good or bad. We feel happiness, joy, pain, loss, guilt and remorse.

The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.