Sophie Cookson Quotes

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.

Love and hate are two of the strongest emotions we feel in relationships.

I have long believed that there are fundamentally two forces or emotions that drive our decisions - love and fear. Love has its many manifestations: compassion, gratitude, kindness, and joy. Fear often manifests in cynicism, anger, jealousy, and anxiety. I worry that many of our communities are being driven by fear.

As in all matters involving love, which has so many different meanings, you find that the feeling that we label 'love' is not a simple feeling, it's a very complex one. Under the heading 'love' can come all sorts of rage and desperation.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Ultimately, there are only two emotions: love and fear. And pretty much anything else you want to name can be broken down into one of those.

Smiles are the language of love.

It's very shocking, I think, for people caring for the dying to realise how unsaintly they feel, how much anger is mixed up with their grief. In fact, often I think the anger that they feel is a form of grief; it's a kind of raging against what's happening.

In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love.

I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.

You have to be sincere in your feelings. And fear is one of those, sometimes; doubt is one of those; jealousy, anger - all your emotions are not going to be considered the strong emotions; all of them are not going to be love, happiness, joy.

Love is only one of many passions.

Girls love emotion.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

People love to hate other people.

No human creature can give orders to love.

Women are a little more assertive in terms of our ability to express our feelings when we fall in love.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.

Beautiful sights arouse feelings of love, and contrary sights bring feelings of disgrace and hate. And the emotions of the soul and spirit bring something additional to the body itself, which exists under the control of the soul and the direction of the spirit.

Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.

I would like somebody to be hated more than I am.

I do have feelings.

You could cure every disease known to man, and still, someone's going to hate you.