Quotes About Emotions

It was a humbling thought, to realize the weight of the world could not break him, but the loss of her could have.

What I like best about this is not seeing you naked, love," Marcus said. He began to massage the bar of soap in the washcloth, creating a rich lather. "Though you are quite beautiful. What I like is knowing Josh is kneeling here beside you and cannot see you.

You will explain to me what you are doing. Right after you get down from there and put on some clothes. Now.

You'll need to take it easy on him, Tyler. He comes off tough as nails, but if you find the way in, he can be hurt. We all can, love. We all can.

since Ian got dangerously worked up by that kind of thing. He'd have

The killed are dead, the bereaved are traumatized. The trauma may be converted to hatred that may be converted into revenge addiction.

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.

If you want to know yourself,Just look how others do it;If you want to understand others,Look into your own heart.

Jealousy is the great exaggerator.

What if depression is, in fact, a form of grief—for our own lives not being as they should? What if it is a form of grief for the connections we have lost, yet still need?

The more novels you read, the better you were at reading other people's emotions. It was a huge effect. This wasn't just a sign that you were better educated—because reading nonfiction books, by contrast, had no effect on your empathy.

We grieve because we have loved. We grieve because the person we have lost mattered to us. To say that grief should disappear on a neat timetable is an insult to the love we felt.

One friend told me that she always knew her depression was lifting when she felt her sense of time expanding again

Being deeply lonely seemed to cause as much stress as being punched by a stranger.

Depression isn't a disease; depression is a normal response to abnormal life experiences!

She had felt homesick. But she was at home.

The vitally important corollary is that evolution shaped us not only to feel bad in isolation, but to feel insecure." It's a beautiful theory.

When they got the results, they were clear. The more novels you read, the better you were at reading other people's emotions. It was a huge effect. This wasn't just a sign that you were better educated—because reading nonfiction books, by contrast, had no effect on your empathy.

fiction is a kind of empathy gym,

Toda la lógica de nuestra cultura conspira para que se quede en la rueda consumista, que salga a comprar cuando se sienta mal, que persiga valores de usar y tirar.

Loneliness, he concluded, is causing a significant amount of the depression and anxiety in our society.

The stunning thing was that loneliness is not merely the result of depression," he told me. "Indeed—it leads to depression.

Your pain makes sense

I was beginning to think there was something significant about the fact that grief and depression have identical symptoms. Then one day, after interviewing several depressed people, I asked myself: What if depression is, in fact, a form of grief—for our own lives not being as they should? What if it is a form of grief for the connections we have lost, yet still need?