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Quotes About Emotions

I remembered how, as a boy, I would stew over all the things Mamá wouldn't do, things other mothers did. Hold my hand when we walked. Sit me up on her lap, read bedtime stories, kiss my face good night. Those things were true enough. But, all those years, I'd been blind to a greater truth, which lay unacknowledged and unappreciated
~ Khaled Hosseini
Sometimes Laila wondered why Mammy had even bothered having her. People, she believed now, shouldn't be allowed to have new children if they'd already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn't fair.
~ Khaled Hosseini
I envied her. Her secret was out. Spoken. Dealt with.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Sad znam da neki ljudi proživljavaju nesre?u onako kao što drugi proživljavaju ljubav: samotno, žestoko i bez zale?a.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed.
~ Khaled Hosseini
One is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart.
~ Khaled Hosseini
I knew it was better to be miserable than rude.
~ Khaled Hosseini
BUT WHEN THE time for good-byes came, the scene erupted precisely as Laila had dreaded. Aziza panicked.
~ Khaled Hosseini
But Mariam's grief wasn't aimless or unspecific. Mariam grieved for this baby, this particular child, who had made her so happy for a while. Some days
~ Khaled Hosseini
?tiu acum c? unii oameni simt nefericirea în acelaÈ™i mod în care alÈ›ii iubesc: în tain?, intens È™i f?r? posibilitatea vreunui remediu.
~ Khaled Hosseini
the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Mi dicono che devo guadare acque dove presto annegherò. Prima di immergermi, lascio questo sulla spiaggia per te. Prego che tu lo possa trovare, sorella, perché tu sappia cosa c'era nel mio cuore quando sono finito sott'acqua.
~ Khaled Hosseini
She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Thinking of him, of the anguish of his final days, and my own helplessness in the face of it, makes everything I have done, everything I wanted to do, seem as unsubstantial as the little vows you make yourself as you're going to sleep, the ones you've already forgotten by the time you wake up.
~ Khaled Hosseini
O poveste trista. - Cartile bune-s facute din povesti triste. - Da, asa-i.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Mungkin aku berdiri di tempat itu kurang dari sepuluh menit, namun, hingga hari ini, aku merasa bahwa menit-menit yang berlalu pada saat itu adalah menit-menit yang terpanjang dalam hidupku. Detik-detik berjalan dengan sangat lambat, jedanya bagaikan seumur hidup. Udara terasa berat, lembab, hampir-hampir padat. Aku bernapas menghirup bata. Baba terus menatapku, dan tidak menawarkan diri untuk membaca ceritaku.
~ Khaled Hosseini
thought, She's your wife. My mother, we buried. But he knew to stifle those words before they came
~ Khaled Hosseini
Une isha si nje pacient qe nuk i thote dot mjekut se ku i dhemb, por vetem qe ka dhembje.
~ Khaled Hossini
It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free of you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.
~ Khalid Hosseini
Oh the gladness of her gladness when she's glad, And the sadness of her sadness when she's sad; But the gladness of her gladness, And the sadness of her sadness, Are as nothing, Charles, To the badness of her badness when she is bad.
~ Khushwant Singh
You think knowing things will solve your private little griefs?
~ Kiana Davenport
But as much as I tried, I couldn't forget my past. The events that had shaped me continued to weigh on my soul.
~ Kien Nguyen
Take a close look at your life if you dare. Do you understand why you allow your children to harass mine? Jealousy, that's why. You are jealous of the fact that all of your fourteen children could never measure up in Daddy's eyes as much as one half-breed of mine. It hurts, doesn't it? Knowing that your children can never be good enough. But how could they? Just look at them, and the parents that gave life to them. I sincerely hope that I never have to see your face again.
~ Kien Nguyen
Jake's POV: ...And we laughed. Suddenly my palms were sweating under my gloves. I slid my hand away and we got back to work, but I felt as if my whole body was on high alert. There was no getting around it anymore. I was falling for this girl. Big-time.
~ Kieran Scott