Quotes about Emotions

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.

I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman, weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other's soul, than I was in the souls of both.

and memory, however sad, is the best and purest link between this world and a better. But come! I'll tell you a story of another kind.

Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.

If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces-- love her, love her, love her!

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

When should I awaken the heart within her that was mute and sleeping now?

You are a little low this evening, Frederick,' said the Father of the Marshalsea. 'Anything the matter?

Camilla, my dear, it is well known that your family feelings are gradually undermining you to the extent of making one of your legs shorter than the other.

but everything in our intercourse did give me pain. Whatever her tone with me happened to be, I could put no trust in it, and build no hope on it; and yet I went on against trust and against hope. Why repeat it a thousand times? So it always was.