Quotes About Emotions

You don't always have to render the feelings of your characters, but you must know what they are in every scene. That way, the actions and dialogue will have an organic complexity that breathes life into fiction.

The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest have borne most. We that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. (24.318–21)

Veteran political observers were astonished and shaken by the powerful emotions that Kennedy aroused. Kennedy capped his exciting run with a close but decisive victory over McCarthy in the key California primary in early June. In his moment of triumph, however, he was fatally shot by Sirhan Sirhan, a deranged Arab nationalist

Nothing did more during these years to excite such emotions than the successful launching by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957 of Sputnik, the world's first orbiting satellite. Sputnik was small—about 184 pounds and the size of a beach ball.

It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our garden. 'I thought the peas were awful, I wish you and Mrs. Thurber were dead, and I hate trees,' said Lisa.

The jewels of sorrow last forever

When times are bad smile, when times are good laugh.

To all the little children:- The happy ones; and sad ones; the boisterous ones and glad ones; The good ones- Yes, the good ones, too; and all the lovely bad ones.

I don't hate the English and I don't know do I love the Irish. But I love him. I'm sure of that now. And he's my country.

This isn't about her. This was never about her. This is about you and me." And he knew without a doubt that Sunny would be there for him if he were poor. She would give him her last dollar. She would take care of him. Not just physically, but emotionally. There weren't many things he was sure of, but he was sure of her.

When we heal ourselves, others are healed. When we nurture our dreams, we give birth to the dreams of humankind. When we walk as loving aspects of the Earth Mother, we become the fertile, life-giving Mothers of the Creative Force. When we honor our bodies, our health, and our emotional needs, we make space for our dreams to come into being. When we speak the truth from our healed hearts, we allow life abundant to continue on our Mother Planet.

It's better to lose our pride to the one You Love, than to lose the one we love, because of our pride.

Every work of art carries with it a piece of the artist's soul. Paintings are windows to our human experience.

but she'd learned that anger and regret were bitter desserts.

People sometimes made mistakes when they felt overburdened. Maybe they drank too much, slept with the wrong person, yelled at loved ones.

When you understand a prickly person's history, you develop compassion for them.

He began to play Yesterday, an old Beatles song.

No," Ivy cried out, struggling against Rowan. "Let go of me.

nobody really knows how anybody else feels - you may think you are feeling as a woman, or as a man, but you may simply be feeling as yourself.

Hard words will break no bones: But more than bones are broken By the inescapable stones Of fond words left unspoken.

Oh, no," said Mrs. Miniver. "They do both, I'm certain. But the trouble is, they keep the two processes entirely separate. They've never learnt to think with their hearts or feel with their minds.

Half an hour, the Gottmans found, is also about how long it takes for the chemicals released during "fight or flight" to exit the body.

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.