Quotes About Emotions

I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them.

He handles his conflicts by denying that they even exist. He is not in touch with his feelings and essentially is not comfortable with himself. He has only an authoritarian image of himself as the machismo type of male.

Maybe that's why people have friends at all. Not because they like them so much but because they don't make them feel so much worse.

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

For instance, when people press their lips together in a manner that seems to make them disappear, it is a clear and common sign that they are troubled and something is wrong.

Neck touching takes place when there is emotional discomfort, doubt, or insecurity.

Eye blocking is a very powerful display of consternation, disbelief, or disagreement.

It is estimated that humans are capable of more than ten thousand different facial expressions (Ekman, 2003, 14–15).

Cleanse my heart... Give me the ability to rage correctly.

Fathers and sons… it's a complicated business, a swirl of love and longing and friction and admiration and regret.

A friend tells a story about taking his ten-year-old son to a Jets game. The game was being played during a driving rain on a freezing cold day, and the Jets lost by twenty points to a team they were supposed to beat. As they headed toward the exits, the boy looked up, with tears in his eyes, and asked, 'Dad, why are we Jets fans?

but a drunk doesn't care about what's been said before, he cares about now and about how he feels, dragging that stuff up is like putting on a good old blues song you've heard a hundred times. You know the words, but it still does you good.

I thought about Hanson. I wanted to be mad at him, but he hadn't done anything but respond to what was there to respond to. Hell, I liked the big bastard. Really. He was a swell guy. I just hoped his dick would fall off.

We took what came the way it came. Least it was that way on the surface. You scratched us a little, though, you could find some jelly there pretty quick. We were the kind that found it hard to cry, but once we got started you best be ready for high water and the loading of animals two by two.

Families is like windows with curtains. Some folks keep the curtains pulled back. Most open and close them from time to time, and some don't ever pull them back and you don't never get no look inside.

It meant I spent less time with my aunt, moving through silence like a ship through fog.

I guess. You think he'll get life, or a needle full of shit?" "I pray for the needle. I'd like to be there to push the plunger in the fucker, or maybe just forget the dope and jab him to death with the needle." "The thing that worries me about you, Leonard, is you have such a hard time getting in touch with your true feelings.

It is safer with me.""Forget it,"I said. "I'm still not going in.""Then you are being very stupid.""I got twenty-two hundred on my SATs,"I said. "How stupid is that?""Stupid enough not to realize when someone cares about you.""Meaning what, exactly?"She looked at me. "What do you think it means?

And now,"she said, raising her hand for a cab, "your wish has been granted. You may go home and forget I ever existed."A taxi swung up to the curb. "Whatever happens next is not on your conscience." "Wait,"I said. "Gobi . . ." She leaned forward, kissing me briefly on the mouth. "Au revoir, Perry." "Wait,"I said. But she didn't. She climbed into the taxi. She didn't look back.

Self-pity wrapped itself around him like a damp, familiar cloak.

Sartre said "Hell is other people," while Streisand sang "People who need people are the luckiest people in the world.

Resentment, anger, and fear all were gone. Only sadness remained. She gathered her collar against the wind and returned to her car in the waning light of the November day.

Youth is not a time of life … it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of ripe cheeks, red lips and supple knees … it is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigour of the emotions … it is a freshness of the deep springs of life.' Unknown.

You don't need to have anything else in order to be happy right now. You can choose to be happy.