Quotes About Emotions

The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.

If I had not kissed anyone, or danced with anyone, or had a reason to cry, the music made me feel as if I had gone through all that anyway.

I was thrilled by discovery, crushed by disappointment, and mortified by any misplaced enthusiasm. I declared allegiance, took a position, and always had a view, not noticing that girls were bemused and boys found me boring. Was a girl not supposed to feel so strongly, let alone want so much to possess and know something for her own sake?

Todas las preocupaciones de su vida pasada le parecían insignificantes e intrascendentes en comparación con el carácter definitivo de la muerte. Era una sensación sobrecogedora que quitaba la facultad de pensar, de moverse, de dirigir las extremidades para avanzar hacia la siguiente eventualidad

Y cuando nos separamos, es otoño en mi corazón.

Entonces, dijiste algo que nunca olvidé. Dijiste que estar con él hacía la vida más significativa, y que cuando se iba, llegaba el otoño a tu corazón.

Yessir, it's a hard taskmaster, that guilt. I say, feel it, and wriggle a little bit if you have to, but then put it away. Get on with what you can change.

You all right? his eyes asked. I'm all right, hers answered.

The value of affection going up when it was in short supply

Les dolía el corazón de amor y miedo

You have a fixation with time - clocks, years. What do they matter when there's love?

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

According to a recent study, depression is described as being the disease most destructive to humankind, largely because of the devastation it wreaks on our lives.... Yes, we could set up our minds to ignore our feelings and barricade ourselves from the winds and dust of the brain pattern. And we could become like robots, refusing to consider the passion and joys that could be ours. But then, we also might as well be dead.

You know, it was a revelation to me to learn that I don't have to be comfortable. Nowhere is it written that I must be comfortable. I always thought if I felt nervous or anxious or unhappy I had to do something about it. But I learned that's not true. Bad feelings won't kill me. Alcohol will kill me, but my feelings won't.

Life, I'd heard someone say, is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. It seemed to me that it was both at once, even for those of us who don't do much of either.

Everybody has mean little places inside himself.

You know, it was a revelation to me to learn that I don't have to be comfortable. Nowhere is it written that I must be comfortable. I always thought if I felt nervous or anxious or unhappy I had to do something about it. But I learned that's not true. Bad feelings won't kill me. Alcohol will kill me, but my feelings won't.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.