Quotes about Emotions

So what do you want? Does what happens inside show on the outside? There is such a great fire in one's soul, and yet nobody ever comes to warm themselves there, and passersby see nothing but a little smoke coming from the top of the chimney, and go on their way.

And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them.

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets — neither of us have any.

The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.

I am so angry with myself because I cannot do what I should like to do, and at such a moment one feels as if one were lying bound hand and foot at the bottom of a deep dark well, utterly helpless.

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

Fortunately for me, I do not hanker after victory any more, and all that I seek in painting is a way to make life bearable.

But if we keep to the positive fact of wanting to produce and to be something, then we can talk over accomplished facts, when it cannot be avoided, without getting angry, even if they might concern, or stand in direct relation with, the Goupils or our family. Besides, these questions are between you and me for a better understanding of the situation, and not out of spite.

The sadness will last forever.

You ever laughed so hard nobody in the world could hurt you for a minute, no matter what they tried to do to you?

I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head.

This Christmas and every Christmas will be richer by sharing and enjoying gifts that cannot be held but only felt.