Quotes About Emotions

I shall weep for you—not just one year but as long as life shall last. Yes, my love, forever. And I'll hate her who gave me birth, and curse my father. Their love was only words; but you, you gave me the most precious thing you had, to save my life. The loss—the loss of one like you— how can I not cry out in pain?

Dire and beyond all healing is the hate When hearts that loved are turned to enmity.

Our relationship had been intended as an interlude. And it had become an interlude. My expectations had been fulfilled. Anyone who expected anything more would have been wallowing in illusions.

He's alone, You're alone, that's more than enough to have in common. What else do you want?

When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky.

You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.

Emotions are the complex conjunction of physiological arousal, perceptual mechanisms, and interpretive processes; they are thus situated at the threshold where the noncultural is encoded in culture, where body cognition, and culture converge and merge.

As Miguel Farias and Catherine Wikholm indicate in their book, The Buddah Pill, mindfulness often deepens feelings of depression and anxiety, as well as creates some sense of dissociation and detachment from reality as a consequence of excessive self-centredness.

Oh, Gram. Don't you think falling in love in one week is about the silliest thing you've ever heard? Not that I'm falling in love, mind you. That's so...so...Harlequin.

As he started 'Whisky and Gin' and the cheering and the shrieking filled my senses, I thought of Mama, shattered by the war and Papa's death and I wished with all my heart that she could understand how it felt to be us that night - how it felt to be eighteen and unbeaten, eighteen and alive.

I didn't hear you come in. I was away with the ghosts of my beautiful youth.

But wonderful people nearly always combine their wonderfulness with other characteristic that can drive on utterly crazy

Happiness can be frightening when one is not accustomed to the sensation.

How could something as significant to one person mean so little to another?

Evan Stark pointed out that there is no incompatibility between hate and love: the two coexist in relationships all the time. So do violence and love, as strange and awful as it may seem.

How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.

You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.

Now we shall both be alone, and I shall have no way of making you understand.' 'I don't want to make it easier for you,' I said; 'I hope your heart may break; but I do understand.

Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.

Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy.

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

Frankly, said the Doctor, I am at a loss to understand my own emotions. I can think of no entertainment that fills me with greater detestation than a display of competitive athletics, none - except possibly folk dancing.

My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret.

Rex has never been unkind to me intentionally. It's just that he isn't a real person at all; he's just a few faculties of a man highly developed; the rest simply isn't there.