Quotes About Emotions

Joe felt like his human thoughts and insights and feelings were almost a defect.

I started to see depression and anxiety as like cover versions of the same song by different bands. Depression is a cover version by a downbeat emo band, and anxiety is a cover version by a screaming heavy metal group, but the underlying sheet music is the same. They're not identical, but they are twinned.

Unhappiness and depression are totally different things. There is nothing more infuriating to a depressed person than to be told to cheer up, or to be offered jolly little solutions as if they were merely having a bad week. It feels like being told to cheer yourself up by going out dancing after you've broken both your legs.

It's worth repeating. Being deeply lonely seemed to cause as much stress as being punched by a stranger.

You too will become more perceptive, open, and empathetic. If, by contrast, you expose yourself for hours a day to the disconnected fragments of shrieking and fury that dominate social media, your thoughts will start to be shaped like that.

Siempre hemos tenido miedo - me dijo-, pero a veces es más fuerte el amor a nuestros hijos que el miedo

Some scientists in the field believe that dreaming somehow helps you to adapt emotionally to waking events.

If it's more enraging, it's more engaging. If enough people are spending enough of their time being angered, that starts to change the culture. As Tristan told me, that turns hate into a habit.

The problem was, Nadine wrote later, that we never knew which mother we were going to get. Everyday after school it was a guessing game. Are we coming home to happy mom or scary mom?

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?

Just as we are rescuing the sex drive from our subconscious and from shame, so we need to take the intoxication drive out into the open where it can breathe.

In most cases, Joanne says, we would have to stop talking about "mental health"—which conjures pictures of brain scans and defective synapses—and start talking about "emotional health." "Why do we call it mental health?" she asked me. "Because we want to scientize it. We want to make it sound scientific. But it's our emotions.

It said depression and anxiety were carried in your genes. I knew my mother had been depressed and highly anxious before I was born (and after), and that we had these problems in my family running further back than that.

Depression is a cover version by a downbeat emo band, and anxiety is a cover version by a screaming heavy metal group, but the underlying sheet music is the same. They're not identical, but they are twinned.

the more a child is read storybooks—something the parents, more than the kid, choose—the better they are at reading other people's emotions.

A common symptom of depression is something called "derealization"5—which is where you feel like nothing you are doing is authentic or real.

He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed

Guai a coloro, dissi, che si servono dell'influenza che hanno su di un cuore per rapirgli le semplici gioie che esso sa procurare a se stesso!

Es ist natürlich wenn uns ein Unglück, oder etwas Schreckliches im Vergnügen überrascht, dass es stärkere Eindrücke auf uns macht als sonst, teils wegen des Gegensatzes, der sich so lebhaft empfinden lässt, teils und noch mehr, weil unsere Sinne einmal der Fühlbarkeit geöffnet sind und also desto schneller einen Eindruck annehmen.

U bezit zoveel verstand, zoveel kennis, zoveel talenten waar u plezier aan kunt beleven! Verman u toch! Geef het toch op, die treurige verknochtheid aan iemand die u er alleen maar om kan beklagen.

Avevo il cuore gonfio... Ci separammo senza esserci capiti. Del resto è difficile capirsi a questo mondo.

Lieben ist menschlich, nur müsst Ihr menschlich lieben!