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Quotes About Emotions

People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married?
~ Mignon McLaughlin
A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it or worse, they might.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
He who sings frightens away his ills.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
Yo no vivía, y ahora vivo; pero ahora que vivo es cuando siento lo que es morir
~ Miguel de Unamuno
Hay quien se hunde en la lectura de novelas para distraerse de sí mismo, para olvidar sus penas...
~ Miguel de Unamuno