Quotes About Emotions

She is the kind and friendly sort, but I'm an old man at this point, so it would be useless and somewhat illegal if I asked her out.

I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired ' which shows some of the legal irregularities of his case. I was involved by the film, and it was an amazing experience to see people weep at the end of it.

As we know, human memory is notoriously unreliable when it comes to recalling facts. But when it comes to matters of the psyche, the way we feel about what happened can be as significant as the facts of the case.

We embrace the knowledge that affirmations and negativity cannot travel the same neural pathways at the same time.

The fact of the matter is that both individuals (fusers and isolators) have the identical need to be loved and cared for. It's just that one of them happens to be more in touch with those feelings than the other.

is easier to go without love than to accept a form of love that reawakens our fears of loss. In fact, to receive love feels far more dangerous than to be without it.

In fact, you chose him or her, in part, because he or she recreated the same difficulties you had in childhood.

Your partner may not look like your parents, and on the surface they may not act like your parents. But you will end up feeling the same feelings you had as a child when you were with your parents. This includes the sense of belonging and the love you felt. But it also includes the experience and upset of not getting all your needs met.

Romantic Love delivers us into the passionate arms of someone who will ultimately trigger the same frustrations we had with our parents, but for the best possible reason! Doing so brings our childhood wounds to the surface so they can be healed.

FROM ECSTASY TO AGONY Romantic Love sticks around long enough to bind two people together. Then it rides off into the sunset. And seemingly overnight, your dream marriage can turn into your biggest nightmare.

He thought he was in love with a person, when in fact he was in love with an image projected upon that person. Cheryl was not a real person with needs and desires of her own; she was a resource for the satisfaction of his unconscious childhood longings. He was in love with the idea of wish fulfillment and--like Narcissus--with a reflected part of himself.

All this may seem like a terrible tangle. But since partnership is designed to resurface feelings from childhood, it means that most of the upset that gets triggered in us during our relationship is from our past. Yes! About 90 percent of the frustrations your partner has with you are really about their issues from childhood. That means only 10 percent or so is about each of you right now. Doesn't that make you feel better?

He who feels no compassion will become insane.

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

That sexual feelings exist [it would be better to say 'may exist'] from earliest infancy is well known, and therefore this function does not depend upon puberty, though intensified by it.

I sensed weeping and salvation in the air, two of my least favorite things.

We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.

The villains are all parts of me. For years I've been wondering what it would be like if all those negative elements were forced onto the main character's side. I can understand a character with that kind of anger.

We have to understand that to rejoice is to do something, not to feel something" (p. 44).

True love doesn't always feel good.

Ellis, A. (2003) How To Keep People From Pushing Your Buttons. New York: Citadel Press.

What you wear in your heart you wear in your face.