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“feelings to describe worry, guilt, anxiety, sadness, depression, happiness, joy, contentment, and so forth.”

— David Stoop

“Bitterness, recriminations, advice, morality, sadness—everything was behind him, and ahead of him was the ragged and ecstatic joy of pure being (195).”

— Jack Kerouac

“Each of the following states of being is distinctly tied to one of the seven core emotions...Freedom, Passion, Enthusiasm, Positive Expectations, Optimism, Contentment, Boredom,…

— Shawn Kent Hayashi

“Its emotional character … is probably mostly indescribable except as a sort of double bind in which any/all of the alternatives we associate with…

— David Foster Wallace

a swell of gratitude and appreciation for his assistant, as opposed to the murderous rage he felt toward the rest of his staff

— Jennifer Egan

“His words held a mixture of embarrassment and anger, the latter caused by the former. He knew he couldn’t remember anything, and he hated…

— Dan Wells

“Emotion has the power to obscure and falsify knowledge: that the whole world assumes a smiling aspect when we have reason to rejoice, and…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“It’s nothing compared to happiness.” I snorted through gritted teeth. “What happiness?” “Exactly.” “Reality interrupts—” Jaw clenching, my nostrils flared as I felt a…

— Scarlett Dawn

“Or / privately with you, when we’re watching television and everyone else can be depressed as rotten logs for all we care, because various…

— Jack Underwood

“The feeling was not of being attractive precisely, but rather of not having to entertain. It was breathtaking: to be ensconced in another person's…

— Lionel Shriver

“thinking about the misery of the world is a favourite contemporary occupation. and if you can't think the television set will think for you.”

— Iris Murdoch

“Feelings have meanings.”

— Steven Redhead