Daniel Handler Quotes

I mean I never feel I feel what I ought to feel.

Excited. In a good way. I've been training my whole life for this.

I don't think I was anything short of ecstatic when I found out 'It's Kind of a Funny Story' would be premiering in Toronto.

I think when people are repressing things, or burying things, that can manifest in all sorts of ways.

If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us.

I feel like a lot of times when stuff is on my mind, I really don't show it. I know how to hide my emotions.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

I was then at the height of my two-facedness: that is, outside I seemed one way, inside I was another; outside false, inside true.

I feel like I’ve been saving up a lot of things, and I don’t know what.

You talked to me, but you didn’t. I could see you having these two-sided conversations. The things you wanted to say to me. And the words that actually came out.

I search but never find, hurt but never cry

To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don't feel worse. There's the ineffectual liberal's problem in a nutshell.

If people only knew how much I secretly hated them, they'd love me for holding it in.

And now, dear Lord, I cannot wait Because I have a luncheon date.

If you allowed yourself to hear or feel amusement, you would hear and feel pain.

I'm delighted and feel incredibly happy with what have been an amazing two months.

I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

My heart raced. He needs you, I thought. Don't let him down. I couldn't remember ever being so happy... or so scared.

When you're really looking forward to something, you don't feel the sense of pressure.

I'm standing here, holding a half a lemon in my hand. I'm speechless, I'm excited . . . I'm a wreck. Caleb wants to be where I am.

...my heart may have been in it but my soul was not.

I am thrilled at most corners that I turn walking down the street, I'm thrilled by most pages I turn when I'm reading a book thinking of what it's going to show and what it's going to make possible for tomorrow.