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Quotes About Emotion

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.
~ Estelle Parsons
Smile and others will smile back.
~ Jean Baudrillard
I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.
~ Albert Camus
How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away!
~ John Gay
Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom
~ Gustave Flaubert, November
Happiness is a privilege.
~ Jay Leno
The expectation of happiness creates a lot of unhappiness.
~ Dov Davidoff
No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.
~ Dante Alighieri
Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.
~ Jane Austen
But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.
~ Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.
~ E. V. Lucas
What happiness is there in just the memory of happiness?
~ Julian Barnes
Man, Coach Brown, he's so relaxed. We've seen that guy dancing this week at practice and he's dancing in the locker room. It brings tears to guys' eyes and brings happiness to everybody.
~ Vince Young
She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live.
~ Daphne du Maurier
Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
~ Andre Gide
I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.
~ Virginia Woolf
I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.
~ Billy Wilder
Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Happiness is the only thing I understand.
~ Quentin Crisp
And feel that I am happier than I know.
~ John Milton
Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel