Quotes about emotion
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William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act III, Scene II, spoken by BenedickIn contextWhen, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,- William Shakespeare1564–1616The Winter’s Tale (c. 1611), Act III, Scene II, spoken by PaulinaIn context
You may my glories and my state depose,
But not my griefs; still am I king of those.Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822Adonais (1821), St. XVIIINever give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Sydney Smith1771–1845Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 10, p. 372
Susan Sontag1933–2004“Susan Sontag: The Rolling Stone Interview” with Jonathan Cott (1978; published 4 October 1979)
John Steinbeck1902–1968Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962), Pt. 2We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome.
John Steinbeck1902–1968“In Awe of Words”, written for The Exonian, Phillips Exeter Academy (c. 1954)Though sympathy can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
