"She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything;..." - Quote by Jane Austen
She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.
More by Jane Austen
“Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.”
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.”
“Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.”
More on Emotions
“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.”
“Happy,Free,Confused,Lonley at the same time.”
“Self Pity is the most miserable party to go to, because, in case you haven't noticed, you're the only one who is there.”
More on Human Nature
“This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.”
“Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.”
“No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.”