Quotes About Emotions

frequented many parlors of the mind. But he shied away from the inner chambers of the heart.

My little Johnnie, Because I like you so much, and because you're so far away that I can't give you a little kiss, I'm writing this letter to ask if you like me as much as I do you? Answer me immediately. A thousand kisses from your Dollie—

went out and grabbed Jobs's lawyer, Larry Sonsini, and asked what he thought Jobs wanted. "Beats me," Sonsini said. So Amelio went back behind closed doors with Jobs and gave it one more try. "Steve, what's on your mind? What are you feeling? Please

Kissinger once said of Israel's Moshe Dayan that he was "a brilliant manipulator of people and yet emotionally dependent on them.

But a solitary suffers terribly from any suspicion concerning the few people he loves—especially

I preferred that my bad dreams be vague.

His voice sounded more sincere in these surroundings, less distorted by pride and pain.

I'd forgotten this about women: so many conditions. A man shouldn't take them to heart, and yet he does, because he doesn't want to be alone.

had a girlfriend named Lana who told me she loved me but said that her impression of life was that people should live alone, answerable to no one. This, she said, made love a true choice and not a duty that inevitably transmogrified into spite.

There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same.

It's hard for a man to understand a woman because a man just desires her; but women, most of them anyway, desire desire.

The great man say that life is pain," Coydog had said over eighty-five years before. "That mean if you love life, then you love the hurt come along wit' it. Now, if that ain't the blues, I don't know what is.

It's a disheartening feeling when you can't stand the touch of someone but neither can you push them away.

Everybody was screaming for joy. That's what children do - they scream because life is just too much for them but they don't know it yet.

This distinction was very important to him: His mother did love him but not enough to save him.

It's a continual revelation when you come to understand that the only thing you can expect in return for your own dignity is hatred in the eyes of others. "BLUE

spent together in the same bed and still managing to keep separate and remote.

Hi,' Winifred Minette said to her husband. Socrates imagined all of the sweet knowledge buried in her hello. It made him happy.

Daddy!" she cried. "Are you okay?" There are ten thousand perfectly good reasons not to have children but hearing the love in Feather's voice trumped every one.

There are ten thousand perfectly good reasons not to have children but hearing the love in Feather's voice trumped every one.

You know love is true when it survives the devastation it causes.

Men and women search for love, find it, and then wake up one morning to the harsh reality that the cap was left off and the precious passion has dried up.

Even as my body rotted and festered under the unblinking eyes of Clark Heinemann, the thoughts I had at death survived. One thousand unpublished stories, 26,473 rejection letters, and all those editorial twits that never gave me a break. The only thing left of me was a raging emotion at every publisher of every insignificant quarterly—but most of all, Clark Heinemann.

So it seems to me that our rate of blinking is somehow geared more to our emotional state and to the nature and frequency of our thoughts than to the atmospheric environment we happen to find ourselves in.