Quotes About Emotions

A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.

it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.

Don't make everyone know about your sadness.

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.

I think I love you, Cal. -Abra I'm not good. -Cal Because you're not good. -Abra

We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent.

What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately.

I'm jus' pain covered with skin.

There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.

As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.

They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.

It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing; to be loved without satiety.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought.

Nearly everybody has his box of secret pain, shared with no one.

Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.

A town is a thing like a colonial animal. A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet. A town is a thing separate from all other towns alike. And a town has a whole emotion. How news travels through a town is a mystery not easily to be solved. News seems to move faster than small boys can scramble and dart to tell it, faster than women can call it over the fences.

The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.

The break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath.

If you are in love — that's a good thing — that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don't let anyone make it small or light to you. […] If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

I do love her, and that's odd because she is everything I detest in anyone else.

I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.

The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.