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“In their quest to hit cloud Nine, our young men and women in their prime are gradually finding themselves on ground Zero, emotionally battered, academically bankrupt and medically paralyzed.”

Book:The Unseen Terrorist

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“When he had ended, the holy hermit was a moment silent, then said: "My son, I have attended to thy story and I know the maiden. I have myself seen her, as have many. Know, then, that she is capricious for she imposeth conditions that man cannot fulfill, and delinquency is punished by desertion. She cometh only when unsought, and will not be questioned. One manifestation of curiosity, one sign of doubt, one expression of misgiving, and she is away!”

Happiness Emotion Curiosity Symbolic

Book:Can Such Things Be?

Source: Can Such Things Be?

“I have worked too damn hard encasing that beating life force into a steel box.”

Love Heart Emotion Protection Emotionally Complicated

Book:Emotionally Compromised

Source: Emotionally Compromised

“Being a 'potential mate' was something rather different and much more complicated. It was when two people had the potential to become like one person, knowing each other's moods and feelings in a way no one else could. Being aware of their presence in a crowded room was just one example. If they were sad or angry, their mate would sense it to a point of feeling the emotion themselves.”

Love Relationships Emotion Complicated Mate Moods

Book:Beasthood

Source: Beasthood

“When you fake emotion for a living, when you make your money providing fantasies for other people, tuning into their worlds and indulging them, you don’t invite someone into your world very easily.”

Reality Emotion Fantasy Fake Privacy Prostitution

Book:The Pleasure Express

Source: The Pleasure Express

“A real person, profoundly as we may sympathize with him, is in a great measure perceptible only through our senses, that is to say, remains opaque, presents a dead weight which our sensibilities have not the strength to lift. If some misfortune comes to him, it is only in one small section of the complete idea we have of him that we are capable of feeling any emotion; indeed it is only in one small section of the complete idea he has of himself that he is capable of feeling any emotion either.”

Emotion Feeling Proust In Search Of Lost Time Swann S Way

Book:Swann’s Way

Source: Swann’s Way

“Internet has grown to not only touch humans in a physical sense but also in an emotional sense.”

Humans Feelings Emotion Internet Touch Sense

Book:Conceptualizing and measuring human anxiety on the Internet

Source: Conceptualizing and measuring human anxiety on the Internet

“We didn't need light & shade, irony or humor. An iconic Daltrey bellow could convey an extrodinary range of human emotion; withering sadness, self pity, loneliness, abandonment, spiritual desperation, the loss of childhood, as well as the more obvious rage & frustration, joy & triumph.”

Emotion Music Riger Daltrey

Book:Who I Am

Source: Who I Am

“Each tear being shed holds a thousand pounds of truth.”

Life Truth Emotion Cry Tears Secrets Hidden

Author:Audrey Regan

“But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”

Love Fear Community Relationship Loneliness Solitude Escape Aloneness

Book:All About Love: New Visions

Source: All About Love: New Visions

“Life is full of disparate details arbitrarily joined together by dreams, pain and yearning. I do not long for sense, but I call for emotion and imagination amidst this chaos.”

Life Pain Imagination Emotion Dreams

Author:Juhani Peltonen

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