Quotes About Emotions

to feel the sentences hoist her up and carry her somewhere else.

every second it feels as if her father slips farther away.

He was numb forever. What clockless hours passed, what weeks and months? He didn't know.

He thought of his year with Sandy in the house on Shadow Hill, how her eyes went to the windows, the silent desperation of everything they never said—gaps and absences in every conversation, the past circumscribing the present, the future hemming in the past.

She was learning that in her life everything--health, happiness, even love--was subject to the landscape; the weathers of the world were inseparable from the weathers of her soul.

That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.

Nearly all the school subjects lay great stress on information. But literature makes its appeal to the heart as well as the intellect. Geography

Words fail us. They are like keys: they open, but they also shut. When we were small and could hardly raise ourselves from the floor, we curled our fingers around the fingers of mother and father, and we looked into their faces as they looked into ours. Where is the word for that?

No matter how grouchy you're feeling, You'll find the smile more or less healing. It grows in a wreath All around the front teeth— Thus preserving the face from congealing.

another letter from Atia and Octavius' stepfather arrived. They advised him not to get overexcited

remembering his great-uncle and his affection for him, Octavius burst into tears.

In feeling pudor, a Roman meditating self-destruction did not so much suffer from guilt at some bad thing he had done

A popular dramatist, Phrynichus, staged a play on the subject of the fall of Miletus. It was a hit and spectators wept at the moving reenactment. This did not do Phrynichus any good. He had laid bare their emotions and people were furious. They made him pay a heavy fine for reminding them of a real-life tragedy with which they were only too painfully familiar. They decreed that no drama on this subject should ever be presented again.

The blow was devastating. The two men had been friends from boyhood

AS a rule Crassus did not bear grudges. This was not because he had a good heart but because other people rarely engaged his emotions. He had little difficulty in dropping friends or making up quarrels as occasion served. Cicero, whose view of friendship was different, had a very low opinion of him.

A broken heart doesn't care if you run from it or not. Either way you take it with you.

La comunicación de los sentimientos, además, no es en sí ni por sí misma suficiente para la intimidad. En la medida en que tal comunicación está ligada con el narcisismo, se trata de una oferta de poder más que de una contribución al desarrollo del amor confluente.

to live is to harbour so many profound losses.

Ah! but a man cannot be held to write down in cold blood the wild and black thoughts that storm his brain when an uncontrolled passion has battered a breach for them. Yet, unless he sets up as a saint, he need not hate himself for them. He is better employed, as it humbly seems to me, in giving thanks that power to resist was given to him ....

We Neopalians like a man who can be angry, and I began to think you never would.' 'I am not the least angry,' said I with great indignation. I hate being told that I am angry when I am merely showing firmness.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?

He didn't want to remember anymore. remembering only hurt him... everytime.

We're meant to be friends but you never tell me anything.