Quotes About Emotions

Benign envy can sound a lot like admiration. The difference is that, while admiration feels good, envy is painful.

A lot of these guys come up and say, 'Man, you were my influence, the way you thrashed the drums.' They don't seem to understand I was thrashing in order to hear what I was playing. It was anger, not enjoyment - and painful.

That's painful always to lose.

If we talked about heartbreak more, would we feel as bad about it? Or would it kind of be more mundane in a less painful way.

I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.

I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful.

I can't even read a script. I've tried and it's painful to watch.

If we don't hope, if we don't stay positive - at least about love, or finding love - then the rest of life becomes really just painful to think about, because for the most part, you know, day-to-day stuff is monotonous.

Divorce is hard and painful and complicated, and something you have to grow through.

My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people - because I was close to something that fell apart.

I like that I've been through things, that when something happens, it resonates with something that already happened. It's not that things like loss are more or less painful. But they're deeper. I find that fascinating.

As you get older, the defeats become more painful. They definitely hurt more.

I remember giving birth in Bromley Hospital annexe. It was painful. Zowie was 8 lb. 8 oz. David was there the whole time. It was the first and only time I saw David cry.

I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.

I think it's always interesting to me how we keep secrets from the ones we love the most. You could be so close to someone, but still there was something you can't express, you can't tell them, because it's almost too painful and too hard for you to articulate yourself, because you don't fully understand it.

Parents are teachers as much as caregivers, and our children learn to navigate life's challenges by watching us. Kids can get a road map for how to handle painful emotions.

That Yo La Tengo record, 'Painful,' has got some real awesome, noisy, mellow heartbreakers.

I used to say it was painful to write lyrics about myself and looking inward.

As with anything that involves emotional pain, comedy isn't too far behind. There's that element of no matter how painful something is - as long as it is not you that is going through it - it can be funny.

For me to do interviews is painful. People don't know that. To do an interview is going back in time. And to go back in time, maybe it wasn't all the time that good.

I never really got the chance to scream about some of the painful things. In the book, I look at my whole life experience, at ego and fame, too.

It's painful when you see your boyfriend flirting with some girl or you know he's been with somebody on the road.

When I was going through all the divorce things, that was really hard to discuss, because nobody wants to talk about their failures. Nobody wants to talk about how painful those kinds of things are.

There are folks who now know black families - like the Johnsons on 'Black-ish' or the folks on 'Modern Family.' They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.