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Quotes About Emotions

but i was young, and i got so cross. in the early days we made up easily. had fun making up, in fact.
~ Elizabeth Noble
The GP, who she called immediately, fingers shaking as she dialled, exclaimed with joy. She didn't thinkdoctors were supposed to do that - register an emotional reaction to an outcome.
~ Elizabeth Noble
i'm not sure either of them had a great capacity for love, that was all. it's funny - mine feels bottomless.
~ Elizabeth Noble
Nothing can be more infuriating than being forgiven over and over again.
~ Elizabeth Peters
Ramses had always been fond of Helen, in his peculiar fashion, but if he had looked at me as he was looking at her, I would have sent for a constable.
~ Elizabeth Peters
My feelings are a fact, not a personal delusion. They are valid for me. What business have you got trying to tell me how I ought to feel?
~ Elizabeth Peters
I had had my night of weeping...I had purged myself of useless emotions that terrible night, now every nerve every sinew, every thought was bent on a single purpose
~ Elizabeth Peters
Though Emerson is a firm believer in the equality of the female sex, he has some secret reservations, and one of them involves the car. (There is something about these machines that makes men want to pound their chests and roar like gorillas. I speak figuratively, of course.)
~ Elizabeth Peters
I am sure I need not explain to any sensible (that is, female) reader why I woke the following morning absolutely furious with Emerson. Such are the vacillations of the human heart; and I have observed that the farther one goes in one direction, the more violent the swing in the opposite direction will be.
~ Elizabeth Peters
Bah,' said Emerson. 'It relieved my feelings, but it had not the
~ Elizabeth Peters
And still tears never feel like enough: the rinse something away, but only the surface, not whatever is underneath.
~ Elizabeth Rosner
And still tears never feel like enough: they rinse something away, but only the surface, not whatever is underneath
~ Elizabeth Rosner
You couldn't make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did. You had to just wait. Eventually the feeling went away because others came along. Or sometimes it didn't go away but got squeezed into something tiny, and hung like a piece of tinsel in the back of your mind.
~ Elizabeth Strout
She didn't like to be alone. Even more, she didn't like being with people.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Because we all love imperfectly.
~ Elizabeth Strout
But I think I know so well the pain we children clutch to our chests, how it lasts our whole lifetime, with longings so large you can't even weep. We hold it tight, we do, with each seizure of the beating heart: This is mine, this is mine, this is mine.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Aveva scoperto che lasciare non dette le cose che si ritenevano più preziose procurava un terribile senso di solitudine.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
Straordinario come ci si sente soli, laggiù nel profondo dell'animo, se manca un compagno di esultanze.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
How is it that you should feel so vastly superior whenever you do not happen to enter into or understand your neighbour's thoughts when, as a matter of fact, your not being able to do so is less a sign of folly in your neighbour than of incompleteness in yourself?
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
She thought she might like him if only he wouldn't so excessively like her.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
She had a sad face, yet she was evidently efficient. The combination used to make Mrs. Wilkins wonder, for she had been told by Mellersh, on days when she had only been able to get plaice, that if one were efficient one wouldn't be depressed, and that if one does one's job well one becomes automatically bright and brisk. About
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
Was it possible that loneliness had nothing to do with circumstances, but only with the way one met them?
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
For years she had been able to be happy only by forgetting happiness. She wanted to stay like that. She wanted to shut out everything that would remind her of beautiful things, that might set her off again long, desiring . . .
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
It is so sweet to be sad when one has nothing to be sad about.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim