logo

Quotes About Emotion

Jealousy, the old worm that bites.
~ Aphra Behn
Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit.
~ Dolores Hitchens
jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.
~ Storm Jameson
I could buy that she would murder me in a fit of rage, poison me out of flaming jealousy, or bomb my car out of sheer, stubborn pique. But she would never do it and feel nothing.
~ Jim Butcher
My dear young lady, when you are in love, and jealous, and have been flogged by the Inquisition, there's no knowing what you may do.
~ Voltaire, Candide
...his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. "I believe you. It's okay because I understand and I believe you.
~ John Knowles, A Separate Peace
There are no preconditions for jealousy. You don't have to be right, you don't have to be reasonable.
~ Franny Billingsley, Chime
If girls could spit venom, it'd be through their eyes.
~ S.D. Lawendowski, Snapped
Jealousy is a normal human emotion. When people act on that emotion, they then become a hater.
~ Ron Baratono
Animosity killed the elephant.
~ Kevin Dalton
I look away so that my eyes don't betray the hurt I feel
~ Adele Parks
Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit.
~ Mme. De Puisieux
Kindness suits you." "Really? I think I'm quite allergic to it.
~ Derek Landy
The man with a heart cannot think about or see creatures without his eyes filling up with tears because of the immense compassion which seizes his heart.
~ Isaac of Nineveh
A word spoken in loving kindness is worth far more than any gift.
~ Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.
~ James A. Baldwin
There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.
~ Robert Breault
Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious.
~ Pierre Corneille
All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.
~ Freya Stark
And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness.
~ Han Suyin
Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts of exquisite courtesy and kindness.
~ Lafcadio Hearn
Kindness. The most unkind thing of all.
~ Edna O'Brien
Kindness was the last thing she needed. She had to stay in the icy place, the numb place, and their warmth threatened to melt her just when she needed the cold.
~ Janet Fitch
In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.
~ George Eliot