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Quotes About Emotions

There must be some sort of drugs. I'd like that. To stop me from feeling anything, or worrying, to let me sleep. Is that possible
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Annushka also needs to feel someone's gaze on her, to feel that her crying is witnessed by someone, to feel it isn't just addressing a void.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
I realized that sorrow is an important word for defining the world. It lies at the foundation of everything, it is the fifth element, the quintessence.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Newspapers rely on keeping us in a constant state of anxiety, on diverting our emotions away from the things that really matter to us.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Anger can prompt one to utter various words, but it can also make one fail to remember them afterward.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
The prison is not outside, but inside each of us.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Sometimes I can't sleep because I miss you all so much. And sometimes I don't think about you at all.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Anger makes the mind clear and incisive, able to see more. It sweeps up the other emotions and takes control of the body. Without a doubt Anger is the source of all wisdom, for Anger has the power to exceed any limits.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
One period of grief is followed by another, so I am in constant mourning. This is my natural state.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
I teraz zrozumia?, sk?d bra?o si? to poczucie braku, smutek le??cy u podstaw wszystkiego, smutek obecny w ka?dej rzeczy, ka?dym zjawisku, od zawsze - nie mo?na naraz poj?? wszystkiego.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
My body tensed, I was ready to do battle. My head began to spin, and a dismal wailing rose in my ears, a roar, as if from over the horizon an army of thousands was approaching – voices, the clank of iron, the creak of wheels in the distance. Anger makes the mind clear and incisive, able to see more. It sweeps up the other emotions and takes control of the body. Without a doubt Anger is the source of all wisdom, for Anger has the power to exceed any limits.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Newspapers rely on keeping us in a constant state of anxiety, on diverting our emotions away from the things that really matter to us. Why should I yield to their power and let them tell me what to think? I trot around the little house, treading
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Literatura pomaga nam rozpozna? si? w cudzych istnieniach".
~ Olga Tokarczuk
I realized that sorrow is an important word for defining the world. It lies at the foundations of everything, it is the fifth element, the quintessence.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
To proste - my?la? Mieczy? Wojnicz, ?ykaj?c ?zy, które miesza?y si? z krwi? zwierz?cia w jego w?t?ym ciele - by? m??czyzn? to nauczy? si? ignorowa? to, co sprawia k?opot. Oto ca?a tajemnica.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
This question was so unexpected that I instantly let myself be carried away by memories. They began to sail past my eyes, and typically for memories, everything in them seemed better, finer, and happier than in reality. It's strange, but we didn't say a word.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Within two years they'd realized that Sweden was too close, that the Baltic Sea brought in certain fluids, nostalgias, miasmas, a kind of unpleasant air.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Kto czyta, ?eby tylko zrozumie?, dopuszcza si? blasfemii. Czyta si?, ?eby prze?ywa? - to g??bszy, bardziej ca?o?ciowy rodzaj rozumienia.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Myrtle says some men are like that—jealous even of their wives' women friends. Oh, Stephen, why will you try to take the joy out of everything so? Why don't you let me have a little fun in life without all this argument? I get sick to death of it.
~ Unknown
At least I knew all about falling in love. It was the falling out that I couldn't manage.
~ Unknown
it is not always that we want friends to be so reasonable and rational about things. Sometimes we want people we like to agree with us, to say yes, you have been hard done by, regardless.
~ Unknown
They liked the book the better the more it made them cry.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
~ Oliver Goldsmith