Quotes About Emotions

yet Bennie, like most highly defended people, is total mush beneath the carapace.

If her mind has a glittery radiance, mine is dark and loamy, preternaturally attuned to sorrow.

To feel forever inadequate: Is this simply the universal condition of being a father?

How they'd started out so much in love, and how things had slowly gone wrong, and how she'd tried, she'd tried, she'd tried. How whenever she resolved to leave Tommy, she'd succumb to sorrow and nostalgia, yes, but mostly she could just never resist her stupid, primal attraction to him, and one of those times they'd conceived Milo.

What disturbs Katniss most is the psychology behind the weapons- that they are talking about placing booby-trapped explosives near food and water supplies and, even worse, creating two-stage devices that result in greater destruction of life by playing on that most human of emotions: compassion. The first bomb goes off, and then when rescue workers come in to aid the wounded and dying, a secondary device explodes.

My relationship with Dean was great, but ultimately it wasn't a fulfilling marriage for either of us.

Just because a man's hormones are involved doesn't mean his heart is involved.

I'm going to make it very hard. I love you and I'm tired of being told what I should want and what I should do. You and I got married and I can stomp my foot and scream and rail at you because of the deal you made with my father, but the truth is I wouldn't have married you if I didn't want to". She took a deep breath. "And I don't think anyone. including my father, could have forced you to marry me. So, Mr. Megalos, consider yourself stuck with me.

Here I am an old man in a long nightgown making muffled noises at people who may be no worse than I am.

If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you'd never fall in love.

Emotions are the lowest form of consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, narrowing, dangerous form of behavior.

Hate misleads, fear distorts and love blinds.

There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn. You see, advice and lovelorn don't go together. Because advice makes love sound like some sort of cognitive activity, but we know that it isn't. We all know that it's some sort of horrible chemical reaction over which we have absolutely no control. And that's why advice doesn't work.

Thankfully, as you will see, the two facts that, (1) you are upset by your bad thoughts, and (2) that you have never acted on them, are sure signs that you will never act on them.

If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.

It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.

She's keyed up," Duncan said as Eve pulled up to the driveway. "You better talk to her, woman-to-woman." "Good idea, because you know we don't even have to speak to each other," Eve said, putting the car into park. "Our uteruses can communicate telepathically.

Today it's just a wound. It takes a long time before you realize it's become a scar.

This was a woman with an entire vocabulary of sighs.

So the fact that you're sleeping with Raylene's ex, and accusing her of being too crazy to lead the fight for the causes she cares about, must feel like a double betrayal to her.

The rape was horrible, but being ignored by you was like being violated again," Albert said, his anger building once more. "It tore her apart.

People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day.

Most mental health problems don't look like we expect. People with crushing depression still laugh and clap their hands. People with bipolar depression still go to work, order coffee at Starbucks, tread in dog shit, get married.

There are few things we can control; our emotions are not among them.