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Quotes About Emotion

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
~ Franz Kafka
We love because it is the only true adventure.
~ Nikki Giovanni
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
~ Arthur Koestler
Madness is part of all of us, all the time, and it comes and goes, waxes and wanes.
~ Otto Friedrich
Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.
~ Sarah Josepha Hale
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
~ Anonymous
Sex is an emotion in motion.
~ Mae West
Sex is the great amateur art.
~ David Cort
Every animal is sad after intercourse.
~ Latin proverb
There breaks in every Gloucester wave A windowed woman's heart.
~ Elizabeth Ward
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
~ Saki
One cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose.
~ Jean Anouilh
Sorrow makes us all children again.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.
~ The Talmud
There is something pleasurable in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
~ Cicero
The deeper the sorrow, the less tongue hath it.
~ Talmud
Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed, Loving the storm that sways her - I found more joy in sorrow Than you could find in joy.
~ Sara Teasdale
More in sorrow than in anger.
~ William Shakespeare
The finer impulse of our nature.
~ Friedrich von Schiller
Tears are Summer showers to the soul.
~ Alfred Austin
For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.
~ Thomas Campbell
Tears are the silent language of grief.
~ Voltaire
I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
~ Benjamin Disraeli