Quotes about emotion
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Carl Jung1875–1961Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963), p. 356The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;
not in silence, but restraint.
Marianne Moore1887–1972The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003), “Silence”
Baltasar Gracián1601–1658The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647), Maxim 208 (p. 118)
George Eliot1819–1880Adam Bede (1859)
Sylvia Plath1932–1963The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 8For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: “It might have been!”Some things are of that nature as to make
One’s fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.
John Bunyan1628–1688The Pilgrim’s Progress, Part II (1684), verse preface “The Author’s Way of Sending Forth His Second Part of the Pilgrim”
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Sceptical Essays (1928), Introduction: “On the Value of Scepticism”
Matthew Arnold1822–1888“The Buried Life”, st. 2 (1852)Time cools, time clarifies, no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Thomas Mann1875–1955The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 7
Vincent van Gogh1853–1890Attributed to Vincent, as quoted by Theo van gogh in his letter from Paris, to Elisabeth van Gogh, 5 August 1890Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Robert Burns1759–1796Johnson’s The Scots Musical Museum (1787–1796)
Audre Lorde1934–1992Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984), “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”, p. 124
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Hyperion (1839), Bk. III, Ch. 4.- ECEmil Cioran1911–1995The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
