Quotes About Emotions

Reason is and ought to be, as Hume said, the slave of the passions.

Eyes blurred, she drove away. Alone, buzzing down the asphalt trail to Kayenta, heart beating, her pistons leaping madly up and down, Bonnie Abbzug relapsed into the sweet luxury of tears. Hard to see the road. She turned on the windshield wipers but that didn't help much.

Wilderness, wilderness.… We scarcely know what we mean by the term, though the sound of it draws all whose nerves and emotions have not yet been irreparably stunned, deadened, numbed by the caterwauling of commerce, the sweating scramble for profit and domination.

But it's all still there in my heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure—they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come, like a treasure found and then, voluntarily, surrendered.

If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

Aloneness is inevitable in being human. People cannot accept this. They should be aware of it and use it. It heightens your perceptions.

I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?

If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?

But one thing it opened her eyes to, and made certain from the first instant of her new consciousness, namely, that since she loved him she could not keep her promise to marry him.

When I saw that things which were to me so intolerable moved them not at all, that words that melted my heart to speak had only offended them with the speaker, I was at first stunned and then overcome with a desperate sickness and faintness at the heart

Does not mean merely a physical aggregation of a number of persons…the crowd is rather a state of mind.

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

By degrees, the bitterness at my heart diffused itself to the circumference of the circle in which my life went its cheerless mechanical round.

If at times thou canst not comprehend the language of my thoughts, at times also I hear sweet enigmas in that of thy emotions.

We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.

Your basic problem is emotional immaturity. You want life to be like in the movies, full of excitement. That's how a child's mind works, but the adults accept regularity, tedium, frustration.

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.

Today I found an old friend. –Ed Burns via Purple Violets

Today I found an old friend.

So I learned not only that your loved one may be forbidden you, given away to someone else, but also that though you love someone they may run from you, and you may open your arms but they shall not come in.