Tiffany Watt Smith > 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

“Envy amplifies other people's successes, and makes our own seem paler by comparison.”
― Tiffany Watt Smith, Schadenfreude: The Joy of Another's Misfortune

“it may in fact be more painful to be relatively deprived than to be actually deprived.”
― Tiffany Watt Smith, Schadenfreude: The Joy of Another's Misfortune

“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