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Quotes About Emotions

I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just another fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all. I'm just going to have to keep smiling.
~ Serena Williams
If you care about something enough, it's going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad. Arnold, get mad.
~ Sherman Alexie
Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go the distance. And life can't do that. So fiction does.
~ Stanley Elkin
On a day when you're not feeling so good, you put on a happy face, it's infectious - these things sound kind of corny and stupid, but this is our life.
~ Tom Selleck
And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.
~ Virginia Woolf
Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.
~ David Eagleman
Life would have been easier for me if I just hadn't met you. But then it hadn't been my life.
~ Erich Fried
You've gotta separate yourself from the character. It's hard... so it can make its way into your everyday life.
~ Evan Peters
Pride and reserve are not the only things in life; perhaps they are not even the best things. But if they happen to be your particular virtues you will go all to pieces if you let them go.
~ Ford Madox Ford
Now my ability to notice things and respond to things and be here is far more profound. With that comes happiness, with it comes sadness, but it's a beautiful life.
~ Nicole Kidman
To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.
~ Nicole Krauss
All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world.
~ Paulo Coelho
No one is alone during tribulations - there's always someone else thinking, rejoicing or suffering in the same way. This thought gives us strength to face the challenge that lies in front of us.
~ Paulo Coelho
I have always been astonished by hate. Revenge and hate. That is such strange human elements. I have seen a lot of that in my life. I am just as surprised each time. By revenge and hate.
~ Odd Nerdrum
Cupid "the little greatest enemy."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
If intellect and will are correctly centered, the emotional life takes on harmony.
~ Richard Wilhelm
Think of your moods as a thermometer that takes the temperature of your life, if you just want to be happy all the time, it's like wanting to break your thermometer.
~ Robert Biswas-Diener
You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.
~ John Irving
Without joy in your life you are powerless.
~ Joyce Meyer
Today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
~ Kevyn Aucoin
We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. Theres a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.
~ Lorraine Toussaint
If you're going to be an artist, real life is your inspiration.
~ Madonna Ciccone
You choose how to feel and act every moment of every day. The moment you accept this responsibility completely, you gain total control over your life.
~ Marshall Sylver