“You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.”
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Others on Emotion
François de La Rochefoucauld
4 quotes“The passions are the only orators which always persuade.”
Goethe
3 quotes“Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.”
Horace
3 quotes“Anger is a brief madness.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
2 quotes“…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hope...”
Aldous Huxley
2 quotes“Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.”
George Eliot
2 quotes“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
Frank Herbert
2 quotes“How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.”
Flaubert
2 quotes“Irony takes nothing away from pathos.”
Lord Byron
2 quotes“Smiles form the channels of a future tear.”
H.P. Lovecraft
2 quotes“From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
Erica Jong
2 quotes“Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or...”
Arthur Schopenhauer
2 quotes“To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.”