Quotes About Emotions

Anger manages everything badly.

There's so much talk about the Drug Generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.

I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.

Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.

I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody.

Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed.

The burden of living one's own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share.

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.

Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that.

I think I was immediately fed, so food became a very important part of my life.

the arts are life accelerated and concentrated.

For what endless years this life will have to go on! He felt, with a kind of horror, his own strong youth and the bounding blood in his veins.

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me.

The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.

Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.

My reasons to live Were my reasons to die But at least they were mine Now I've freedom unbound Cut the laces of life

Divorce is one of the most stressful life events anyone goes through.

I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

A Christian life based on feeling is headed for a gigantic collapse.

The biggest lessons I've learned in life have probably come from a bad situation, from an angry situation, even if I wasn't the one who was angry.