Quotes About Emotions

People want to know how much you care before they care how much you know.

protect them from feeling "bad" at the cost of a meaningful and fulfilling life.

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

You will surely smile with me when I say, 'Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it any greater dignity than just that.

I still don't like going to bed alone.

It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

I would like to be soft and warm. I would be terrified to be that way. I could be hurt if I were soft and warm. I could be hurt by something other than myself. It is harder to be soft than it is to be hard. I could be hurt by something other than myself.

That was beautiful. She is holding my hand. No, it wasn't. If she let go, I would fall apart. It was. It was beautiful because it was honest and it was beautiful because it hurt and it was beautiful because you didn't have to tell it to me. Fall apart. It makes me feel like shit.

All violence is an attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.

The most potent stimulus of aggression and violence, and the one that is most reliable in eliciting this response, is not frustration per-se (as the "frustration-aggression" hypothesis had claimed), but rather, insult and humiliation. In other words, the most effective way, and often the only way, to provoke someone to become violent is to insult him.

You never loved anyone who loved you back.

Politics seems much less important today. When you see your young daughter smiling as she was, and moving around, it's a superb feeling.

If a man felt hostility and aversion, but saw that he had poor or no grounds for his feeling, the remedy was to look for good or at least better grounds--a search hid predisposing thoughts would help him in.

When I am old, I hope to remember sadness unequivocally.

Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.

Self esteem and depression go hand in hand. They are directly proportionate to each other and if there is variation in one then there will be a variation in the other one as well.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. You've nothing to worry about there.

The right mixture of caring and not caring - I suppose that's what love is.

But now I'm beginning to care again—a little—and it hurts—it's really more convenient not to have any hopes and fears.

When men feel the wound that cannot heal, they either bury themselves in woman's arms and ask her for healing, which she cannot provide, or they hide themselves in macho pride and enforced loneliness.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou