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Quotes about Emotion

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you moving but doesn't get you anywhere.
— Corrie Ten Boom
Worry is a state of mind based on fear.
— Napoleon Hill
That was our first time together. Interesting, an interesting experience, but not earth-shaking. But then, I never expected it to be earth-shaking, not with him. What I was determined to avoid was emotional entanglement. A passing fling was one thing, an affair of the heart quite another. Of myself I was fairly sure. I was not about to lose my heart to a man about whom I knew next to nothing.
— JM Coetzee
And anyway, I suspect he secretly liked it when a woman was cold and distant
— JM Coetzee
Truth is not spoken in anger.Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love.
— JM Coetzee
we also first beheld Unveiled the summit of Mont Blanc, and grieved To have a soulless image on the eye That had usurped upon a living thought That never more could be.
— JM Coetzee
Because it is not in the nature of love affairs for the lovers to see each other whole and steady.
— JM Coetzee
It's not that I can't fall in love. It's really that I can't help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I can't distinguish between what's platonic and what isn't, because it's all too much and not enough at the same time.
— Jack Kerouac
It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,' she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid of her - I wanta be chased till eternity till I catch her.
— Jack Kerouac
He had never felt anything like that before - yet somehow he knew that from now on he would always feel like that, always, and something caught at his throat as he realized what a strange sad adventure life might get to be, strange and sad and still much more beautiful and amazing than he could ever have imagined because it was so really, strangely sad.
— Jack Kerouac
I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.
— Jack Kerouac