Quotes About Emotions

Sometimes when I am photographing a major news event, I am suddenly overwhelmed by helplessness.

I could always flip between emotions and be available to suddenly do something new. I think it's a part of playing, and you hang onto it when you're a kid.

Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.

A parent can seem very kind and gentle, but as any child knows, as soon as that parent gets stressed, they can suddenly turn and get a bit angry.

My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of strep. As I stood stunned in a church at her memorial, one of the hardest things I heard someone say was, 'I'm going to go home and hug my child a little tighter.' 'Well, good for you,' I thought. 'I'm going to go home and scream.'

I'd been told that when you first put your feet on African ground, you'll be hit by a feeling of overwhelming understanding, like you've returned home and suddenly belong. Quite frankly, I didn't feel that.

Sometimes, it is precisely when you discover that you are living very happily that you suddenly find yourself in danger. To be happy means to discover that you are exposed to being hurt.

Even ordinary people aren't ordinary, not really. They're filled up with thoughts and feelings that you might never know are there until they suddenly materialise.

You can be cocky and confident, but when you start developing feelings for someone, suddenly your self-esteem drops a bit.

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

I suffer from everyday life.

I like when characters suffer in stories because that's real life and that's what we all go through.

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part, I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive.

Russian work songs can make you suffer.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

People who suffer from anxiety are very good at hiding it. That can often be a contributor to the anxiety because the gap between the internal perception and the external impression can feel so large.

That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.

Because to write, one must truly suffer.

We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally.

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

Myself, I suffer from loneliness. And I think we all feel alone. I'm looking for stories that help people deal with loneliness and help them if they are monsters: they don't have to undertake monstrous actions. And maybe they're not monsters.

I was depressed for a year after 'The Pianist,' and I don't suffer from that, generally. It wasn't just a depression; it was a mourning.

We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.