Quotes About Emotions

The more we suppress anger, the more it accumulates.

To admit the presence of fear isn't weakness. Only a fool would pretend that he is never fearful.

We Were Created as Emotional Beings

Ignoring emotional feelings never contributes to the stability of a marriage or any other relationship.

I don't think we don't love each other.

There are places in my heart...where no living soul...has...or can ever...trespass.

EMMA: We're lovers. ROBERT: Ah, yes. I thought it might be something like that. Something along those lines. EMMA: When? ROBERT: What? EMMA: When did you think? ROBERT: Yesterday. Only yesterday. When I saw his handwriting on the letter. Before yesterday I was quite ignorant. EMMA: Ah. (pause) I'm sorry. ROBERT: Sorry? (silence) How long? EMMA: Some time. ROBERT: Yes, but how long exactly? EMMA: Five years. ROBERT: Five years?

What waits me on the shelves? I cannot guess, But feel the sure foreboding; there will cry A voice of human laughter and distress, A word that no one needs as much as I.

I heard my aunt and uncle come to the door. I heard her voice through the door. "Morris, I'd better go in and speak to him. Did you see the look on his face? It was as if he was a little boy locked out of his home." "No," my uncle said. "Let him alone. He'll get over it soon. He's a real man." They walked away.

My aunt touched my shoulder, I opened my eyes startled for a moment. She was smiling softly but I could see the tears sparkling in the corner of her eyes. "It's the same God, Frankie." I could feel the tension flow out of me. Suddenly I smiled at her. She was right: the Word meant God in no matter what language you spoke it—English, Latin or… Hebrew.

The fierce pride I had in my being was hurt by the slow disintegration of his own.

Is it ever acceptable to be angry at God? I would suggest that it is not only acceptable, it may be one of the hallmarks of a truly religious person. It puts honesty ahead of flattery.

Sometimes, if we can't find another person to dump our anger on, we turn it on ourselves. The textbook definition of depression is anger turned inward instead of being discharged outward.

One of the basic needs of every human being is the need to be loved, to have our wishes and feelings taken seriously, to be validated as people who matter.

the Weeping Willow love slayer

When the emotions are dead, a woman is not affected by any of the natural feminine feelings of horror, fright at the sight of blood, or pity that ordinarily influence a normal person. Because her emotions were dead, she could carve a body to pieces, gather up all the piteous dismembered parts, throw them into a gunny sack, carry them out on her back in a moonlit night, dig a grave in the yard, and throw the troublesome bundle into the hole without a tremor.[4]

It is not enough for a woman to murder an enemy; she wants to make him suffer, and she enjoys his death.

Recent scientific research has reinforced the findings of people like Otnow and Athens by demonstrating that a traumatic upbringing can actually alter the anatomy of a person's brain. Brain scans performed on severely abused children have found that specific areas of the cortex—related not just to the intelligence but to the emotions—never develop properly, leaving them incapable of feeling empathy for other human beings.

A passion for compassion comes from an awakened heart

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

We never know how we love til we try to unlove!

there are some feelings so agitated and tumultuous, that they can find rest only by being poured into the bosom of Almighty love,—

Sobs, heavy, hoarse and loud, shook the chairs, and great tears fell through his fingers on the floor - just such tears, sir, as you dropped into the coffin where lay your first-born son; such tears, woman, as you shed when you heard the cries of your dying babe; for, sir, he was a man, and you are but another man; and, woman, though dressed in silk and jewels, you are but a woman, and, in life's great straits and mighty griefs, ye feel but one sorrow!

An atmosphere of sympathetic influence encircles every human being; and the man or woman who feels strongly, healthily and justly, on the great interests of humanity, is a constant benefactor to the human race.