Quotes about Emotions

I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.

I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

I'm glad I never had any children,' said Cousin Sarah. 'If they don't break your heart in one way they do it in another.' 'Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up?' queried Valancy. 'Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.

Note: — One can do a great deal with appropriate smiles. I must study the subject carefully. The friendly smile — the scornful smile — the detached smile — the entreating smile — the common or garden grin.

Night is beautiful when you are happy—comforting when you are in grief—terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

Marilla felt this and was vaguely troubled over it, realizing that the ups and downs of existence woudl probably bear hardly on this impulsive soul and not sufficiently understanding that the equally great capacity for delight might more than compensate.

It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them

what perverted shapes thwarted love can take.

the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop, and that hurts.

It will take a lot of love to spoil Ilse, laughed Laura. She's drinking it up like a thirsty sponge. And she loves him wildly in return.

At least it removed her dread of being laughed at, though the deeper hurt of an outraged ideal remained.

Jane did not like Phyllis. Sometimes Jane thought drearily that there must be something the matter with her when there were so many people she didn't like.