Quotes About Emotions

A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Revenge may be wicked, but it's natural.

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

It is better to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all

One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.

And the violence we will reap, Is bred from the anger we sow.

I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen, and so I swung into action and wrote a poem, and it was miserable, for that's how I thought poetry worked: you digested experience and shat literature. [from "Mingus at the Showplace"]

Listen, / my wary one, it's far too late / to unlove each other.

I can stand you all being a lot worse now, because I can always go there. It's when I haven't got anywhere to go that I get mad straight away. But if I go there for half an hour it's beautiful to come back.

Old Songs are more than tunes. They are little houses in which our hearts once lived. When we hear them we go visiting—we walk forgotten streets, we smile again at the skies of youth.

She was the perfect end to a crappy day, brusque, supercilious and precisely as pleasant as a boil on the sphincter.

There was this guy lying on the couch," Laila recalled. "I had no idea who he was. I just remember thinking, 'Uh-oh.' I had this feeling as if a bomb had dropped. I kind of knew from the second I saw him that I would either love him or hate him.

El sonido más solitario del mundo es el que producen otras personas haciendo el amor.

The secret to winning a woman is calculated neglect.

it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.

Culturally we are taught to disregard our gut instinct. But it is a crucial element of our ability to face and cope with traumatic situations.

The realization that she could feel the old longings and feelings of being abandoned without disintegrating gave her courage to start reaching out for social contact again.

She left feeling dirty, and on the bus ride home she knew that what her uncles told her had come true: she had been attracted to an object that was beautiful, and she had become spellbound, and then its shape had changed, and what had appeared beautiful had turned ugly.

You have to be colder. Then he will come to you. The more you pull, she said, the more he'll run. A boy, a man, he is like an untrained dog who thinks that because you don't allow him to sniff the pole over there, that pole is the most precious spot in the world. Let him go, she said. And he will come running back.

Of all the human emotions, curiosity is the one least subject to gluttony. Once engaged, it has a tendency to grow relentlessly until in the end the scholar becomes curious about the nature of revelation itself.

Hey, do you want to end this right now?" Her eyes flared. "I wouldn't have asked you out if I'd wanted to end it. Sit back, eat and enjoy. Pretend I'm dead.

Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.