Quotes About Emotions

almost all people who hurt themselves on purpose do so at least in part to regulate their emotions.

Is it too late?" I asked Margot Cherry that afternoon. It's been more than thirty years and still I can remember how my voice shook. "How do we know when we've loved someone all that we can?

If we love our Lord, not just admire him or fear him or want things from him, we must recognize his feelings; he must be in anguish over our sins.

The love she had felt for him in the past was still there within her, covered over now like a bandaged wound, not yet healed underneath and perhaps still easily reopened.

If you're writing about a character, if he's a powerful character, unless you give him vulnerability I don't think he'll be as interesting to the reader.

I simply write what I want, wish, long to write.... The state of human life and the god or demon within. The constant internal war that being alive can conjure.

I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.

If Bobby had to guess, he'd say that killing folks was some kind of sickness where imagination and emotion got all mixed up. If

No real ghosts, Ted told himself. Memories were the only ghosts adults had: Memories and regrets.

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I served everyone automatically, keeping a big smile on my face, but inside I felt like a jar lid that's been twisted on too tight.

The satisfaction you get when you finally beat your dad is amazing, that rush of adrenaline.

People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic.

I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite.

Some hold love to be for conquest, both of persons and of things, But supreme love, all unheeding, straight forgets the gift it brings.

What is love? To be delighted by the happiness of another.

Once in my life I knew a grief so hard I could actually hear it inside, scraping at the lining of my stomach, an audible ache, dredging with hooks as rivers are dredged when someone's been missing too long. I have to think my mother felt something like that.

I don't care if you danced naked on the roof of the Little Palace with him. I love you, Alina, even the part of you that loved him.

Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against each other until finally there's an explosion—that's Plot.

He said they were afraid, and that fear makes stupid people do wicked things

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

The only time a relationship is good is when you really love them.

I think you have to know how you feel when you're sad and it's healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.

I'm a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really.