Quotes About Emotions

There's nothing like heartbreak to crack a person wide open. But the cracks can sometimes act as reservoirs too.

I led Paul out the door, and neither of us said a word while we crossed the street. Once we made it to the other side, Paul stopped to stare at the building. He was babbling incoherently. The only words I caught were "fucking uptown" and "pancreas." He still had the doorman's pen in his hand.

I could blame my existential sadness on a lot of issues, but the truth is, it's been a part of me since Day One.

memories are the patches that make up the quilt of our emotions. A beautiful way to put it, but wrong. If that were true, then memories would blanket us, they would keep us warm. My memories were chilling me to the bone.

Maybe that was the key to getting rid of the loneliness, I thought. Treating love as entertainment, not salvation.

I felt betrayed and deceived, and I feared I'd never get to be a William Eggleston character.

how to be poignant and moving and clever on the face of that, when all I felt was hollow.

no matter how strong it was, love alone couldn't turn a speck of dust into a galaxy of stars.

Realizing that no matter how much you love somebody, no matter how desperately you want a relationship to work, life can act as an oxidizer and corrode it to pieces.

Our love became a casualty of my family tree

Maybe that was the key to getting rid of the loneliness, I thought. Treating love as entertainment, not as salvation.

I wanted to freeze the moment. Freeze it and jump inside of it and stay there until it melted into the warm, swishy liquid of happy memories.

I don't know anything," she said. "Except that desperation and fear make a person do really stupid things.

I was taught at a tender age that Bullying had nothing to do with me; instead it had everything to do with the heartache of the person doing the bullying.

Part self-pity, part shame, part anger, part regret.

Gifted children often struggle to make attachments

I understand loving someone, but not losing yourself to that degree. It's not healthy.

When you're 6 or 7, your father becomes this wonderful presence in your life. I really responded to my father. And then, the very moment I realized that I loved him unconditionally, that life was going to be great just because he was in it, he was gone.

The most important thing I've discovered is that I love her best when I'm not scared of her, when I'm not worrying myself crazy because she's a girl and I'm a boy and I don't understand all there is to understand about her, or because I'm afraid I haven't been a good enough [dad]. Fear gets in the way of love, and I've discovered that fear, and not hate, is the opposite of love.

I'd cycled through the stages of rejection - denial, anger, homicidal mania, hating Matt's stupid face, and acceptance

Doesn't seem right, does it? A split second to lose him and a lifetime to grieve over him.

Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die?

Certain things leave you in your life and certain things stay with you. And that's why we're all interested in movies- those ones that make you feel, you still think about. Because it gave you such an emotional response, it's actually part of your emotional make-up, in a way.

I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.