“The supernatural world was like an onion. You peel back the layers, only to find more layers, on and on, hopelessly trying to reach the mysterious core. Then you start crying.”
“Emotions unreel in her like spools of cotton.”
Source: The Antelope Wife
“there are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done”
Source: The Black Banner
“Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.”
Source: Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
“If we indulge in inordinate affection, anger, anxiety, God holds us responsible; but He also insists that we have to be passionately filled with the right emotions.”
Source: Biblical Ethics / The Moral Foundations of Life / The Philosophy of Sin: Ethical Principles of the Christian Life
“Extreme joy and extreme sorrow are indistinguishable beyond a certain point. ("Jane Brown's Body")”
Source: The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
“Love is not an idea, not a feeling, not a sensation, not a sentiment, not a passion, not even an emotion. It is becoming and being not... Ultimate nothingness! Complete self-annihilation!”
“The written word can make one pause and contemplate. It can make a reader sigh to dream or question a belief in considerable depth. But all of that is nothing if those words fail to touch the heart and make one feel.”
“If the landscape of human emotion were to exist in country, it would be in Italy." ~Lisa Fantino/Amalfi Blue”
Source: Amalfi Blue, lost & found in the south of Italy
“The burnt-off connectors and shadows where Ravan once filled my spaces— those, I think, are the sensations of grief.”
Source: Silently and Very Fast