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Quotes About Emotion

Nothing more private than pain. It can only involve one. But who? Who is "I" in "I hurt"? The one who inflicts the pain or the one who suffers it? And does "hurt" refer to the inflicting or the suffering?
~ Unknown
Are you saying, perhaps, that I am moved by spite, revenge or, even worse, that I am seeking some sort of perverse thrill in cruelty? It seems to me that you don't understand what our work here is about.
~ Unknown
Who is "I" in "I hurt"? The one who inflicts the pain or the one who suffers it? And does "hurt" refer to the inflicting or the suffering?
~ Unknown
Intimacy can be an unbearable burden for those who, first experiencing it after a lifetime of proud self-sufficiency, suddenly realize it makes their world complete. Finding bliss becomes one with the fear of losing it.
~ Unknown
In books, music, art I've always looked for emotion + elegance.
~ Unknown
Envy is born in a man from the start.
~ Herodotus
My flesh was burning where the skin was scraped off my knees, and I was afraid that I couldn't be alive anymore with so much pain, and at the same time I knew I was alive because it hurt. I was afraid that death would find its way into me through this open knee and I quickly covered my knee with my hands.
~ Herta Muller
Ich trage stilles Gepäck. Ich habe mich so tief und so lang ins Schweigen gepackt, ich kann mich in Worten nie auspacken. Ich packe mich nur anders ein, wenn ich rede.
~ Herta Muller
Today the grass listens when I speak of love. It seems to me that this word isn't honest even with itself.
~ Herta Muller
Olha como chora, alguma coisa nele extravasou. Pensei muitas vezes nesta frase. Depois, escrevi-a numa folha em branco. Voltei a riscar, voltei a escrever. Quando a folha encheu, rasguei-a do caderno. A isto chama-se memória.
~ Herta Muller
Ik weet niet hoe woorden dat tot stand brengen, dat de zin opglinstert en veel meer zegt dan de inhoud van zijn woorden.
~ Herta Muller
Boredom is fear's patience. Fear doesn't want to exaggerate. Only on occasion—and fear considers this very important—does it want to know how things stand with me.
~ Herta Muller
The 16 characteristics of psychopaths: 1. Intelligent 2. Rational 3. Calm 4. Unreliable 5. Insincere 6. Without shame or remorse 7. Having poor judgment 8. Without capacity for love 9. Unemotional 10. Poor insight 11. Indifferent to the trust or kindness of others 12. Overreactive to alcohol 13. Suicidal 14. Impersonal sex life 15. Lacking long-term goals 16. Inadequately motivated antisocial behavior
~ Unknown
From their eyelids as they glanced dripped love.
~ Hesiod
How can something that is true in your heart and in your mind not be real?
~ Unknown
You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.
~ Heston Blumenthal
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.
~ Heywood Broun
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.
~ Heywood Broun
Criticism has hurt him for he is not insensitive. He is merely inarticulate.
~ Heywood Broun
He felt strangely moved by the thought that Toshiaki's wife had been beautiful down to her liver.
~ Unknown
Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.
~ Hideki Tojo
Awe becomes simple fear all too easily. And when it does, what does that leave but hatred?
~ Hideyuki Kikuchi
As he lay down, a slight sigh spilled from his thin lips. Most likely it was just his chest wound having its say. Of course, no one else would ever know for sure. D's sorrow, his joy, and his pain belonged to him alone.
~ Hideyuki Kikuchi
Here richly, with ridiculous display,The Politician's corpse was laid away.While all of his acquaintance sneered and slangedI wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.
~ Hilaire Belloc