The Book of Human Emotions Quotes

“There are some emotions which are so quiet that they slip past before we’ve even had a chance to spot them, like that momentary sense of comfort which makes your hand reach out for a familiar brand at the supermarket.”
― Tiffany Watt Smith, The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

“The history of our desires is the story of how e lose ourselves to them.”
― Tiffany Watt Smith, The Book of Human Emotions: From Ambiguphobia to Umpty—154 Words from Around the World for How We Feel

“Acıma, bizi sorumluluğun rahatsızlık verici hissinden ya da daha derin bir duygusal bağın acısından kurtaran bir tür kendini tutma biçimi, bir kendimizi koruma yöntemi haline geliyor. Ya da Zweig’ın dediği gibi “Aslında merhametle alakası olmayan bir merhamet, birinin kendi ruhundan yabancı bir acıyı kovma içgüdüsü.”
― Tiffany Watt Smith, The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopaedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

“Çünkü bazen bizden neyin alındığını itiraf ettiğimizde tekrar bir bütün gibi hissedebiliyoruz.”
― Tiffany Watt Smith, The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopaedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

“The history of our desires is the is the story of how we lose ourselves to them.”
― Tiffany Watt Smith, The Book of Human Emotions: From Ambiguphobia to Umpty—154 Words from Around the World for How We Feel