Emotions and Feelings

Those who in quarrels interpose,

I am in earnest—I will not equivocate—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch—and I will be heard!

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

No memory of having starred

I never dared be radical when young

My apple trees will never get across

I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces

And nothing to look backward to with pride,

And nothing to look backward to with pride,

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee

… Life is too much like a pathless wood

… Life is too much like a pathless wood

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

We must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning.

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he, alone among creatures, has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

My tongue swore, but my mind’s unsworn. Hippolytus lamenting his breaking of an oath

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.