“humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel”
Others on Emotion
François de La Rochefoucauld
4 quotes“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.”
Horace
3 quotes“Anger is a brief madness.”
Ernest Hemingway
3 quotes“Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.”
Goethe
3 quotes“Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.”
Louis L'Amour
2 quotes“Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.”
Veronica Roth
2 quotes“I still want to be angry, but I have to let my anger go.”
Aldous Huxley
2 quotes“Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.”
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...”
George Eliot
2 quotes“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
Wayne W. Dyer
2 quotes“It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have...”
Lord Byron
2 quotes“Smiles form the channels of a future tear.”
Jeanette Winterson
2 quotes“Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.”