Quotes About Emotions

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

One would think, to look at him, that he ought to be jolly; one might think, considering his enormous wealth, that he ought to be happy; but this was not the case.

I miss you, dad.

The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were fading more and more every day.

Hatter, my love, we never got a chance to say good-bye. --Weaver

Off with their heads! the woman screamed. Off with their stinking, boring heads! Redd, The Looking Class Wars

The scars of war are not always visible.

Wasn't that partly what it meant to be in love—that two people told each other everything, confiding without reserve or embarrassment their dreams, doubts, fears, plans, ambitions? Didn't being in love mean there was no need of secrets?

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

I'm angry. I just don't give in to it." He sipped his tea and then put it down. "Stuff happens all the time. What'd you call it? Outrageous. Outrageous stuff make you so mad you can just burn yourself up with it. You got to decide if the mad runs you, or you run the mad.

Such examples should alert one to the fact that falling in love and staying in love may be two rather different processes. The first is based mainly on immediate attraction, while the second will require negotiation, compromise, and a far better understanding of both oneself and one's partner. Falling in love is grand; staying in love is hard work.

Perhaps if we were consciously able to use our bodies as fluently and expressively as we use language, we would find the physical reaction to each successful picture to be as particular and unique as our verbal formulations.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it's a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that's really chewing on us.

Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

It was mostly sweet, he whispered, and you were the sweetest of all.

Emotions are the curse of logic.

Sad? Nonsense! Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.

When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.

One of the most terrible moments in a boy's life," Paul said, "is when he discovers his father and mother are human beings who share a love that he can never quite taste. It's a loss, an awakening to the fact that the world is there and here and we are in it alone. The moment carries its own truth; you can't evade it. I heard my father when he spoke of my mother. She's not the betrayer, Gurney.

A person cries out in life because it's lonely and because life's been broken off from whatever created it. But no matter how much you hate life, you love it too. It's like a caldron boiling with everything you have to have, but very painful to the lips.

I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me

it's a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that's really chewing on us.