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Quotes About Emotions

It is absurd to suppose that periods empty of love are blank pages in a woman's life. The truth is just the reverse. What remains to be said about a passionate love affair? It can be told in three lines. He loved me, I loved Him. His presence obliterated all other presences. We were happy. Then He stopped loving me and I suffered.
~ Colette
Entre les jeunes mariés ça va trop bien ou ça va trop mal. Et je ne sais pas lequel vaut le mieux. Mais ça ne va jamais tout seul.
~ Colette
To write sincerely, almost sincerely! I hope it may bring me relief, that sort of interior silence which follows a sudden utterance, a confession.
~ Colette
Rest assured that long patience and jealously concealed sorrows have shaped, refined, and hardened that woman who makes people exclaim: "She's made of steel!" She's simply "made of woman," and that's sufficient.
~ Colette
Today, I dressed my wound, and nursed my hurt in a sheltered place.
~ Colette
Nulla porta-lo so- all'amore. E' lui che si butta di traverso sulla vostra strada. La sbarra per sempre o se se ne allontana lascia la via sconvolta, sfondata. Soltanto nel dolore una donna è capace di superare la mediocrità
~ Colette
Je ne parviens pas à m'expliquer comment la joie de mes réveils s'assombrit graduellement, dans le jour tombant, jusqu'à la mélancolie et au recroquevillement farouche.
~ Colette
She is made for moderate emotions, ash-blonde sorrow.
~ Colette
But when he said in his heart of hearts "Vinca!", the name inseparably linked with his friend, evoked the memory of sand, warm to kneel on, or trickling out between fingers that held it in a tight squeeze...
~ Colette
The truth is that there is no such thing as a negative emotion. Emotions only become "bad" and have a negative effect on us when they are suppressed, denied, or unexpressed. Positive thinking is really just another form of denial.
~ Unknown
The human experience is meant to be an emotional one, so the extent to which we deny our feelings is the extent to which we deny our purpose for being here.
~ Unknown
The woman's brain has two hemispheres," she slurred. "One for loving, one for hating. They can operate quite competently at the same time.
~ Unknown
This skin, this hair, all this outside stuff. It isn't me. It's just my package. It's like the wrapper around the sweet; it isn't the sweet itself. What we really are is all inside the package. All our feelings. All our good moods and bad moods. All our ideas, our cleverness, our love, that's what a person really is.
~ Unknown
It was in the eyes that all the joys and scars floated like lotus leaves just below the surface of a pond.
~ Unknown
Something about the countryside released the emotions that remained bottled in the city. Perhaps he wasn't just sad for the plight of these friends, perhaps it was a global, all-encompassing sadness that included this whole country, and the hopelessness of life, and the fact that there would never really be peace in the world because man was intrinsically stupid.
~ Unknown
the overriding thought in my mind is that I didn't have the foresight to say goodbye or thank you to the people I love. That sounds corny, I know, but what's wrong with corny? It has its place.
~ Unknown
All happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy
~ Colin Dexter
But he'd realized too, at the same time, that his capacity for jealousy was pretty nearly boundless.
~ Colin Dexter
He was somewhat of a loner by temperament--because though never wholly happy when alone, he was usually slightly more miserable when with other people.
~ Colin Dexter
J?dru?! Ran twoich niegodnam ca?owa?.
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will because it comes from love.
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.
~ Unknown
Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Nuestra envidia siempre dura más que la felicidad de quien envidiamos" (Heráclito)
~ Unknown
Es difícil luchar contra el ánimo de uno, pues aquello que se desea le cuesta a uno el alma
~ Heraclitus