Quotes About Emotions

It's the southern way, Doctor." "The southern way?" she said. "My mother's immortal phrase. We laugh when the pain gets too much. We laugh when the pity of human life gets too . . . pitiful. We laugh when there's nothing else to do." "When do you weep . . . according to the southern way?" "After we laugh, Doctor. Always. Always after we laugh.

Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.

From the beginning I've searched out those writers unafraid to stir up the emotions, who entrust me with their darkest passions, their most indestructible yearnings, and their most soul-killing doubts. I trust the great novelists to teach me how to live, how to feel, how to love and hate. I trust them to show me the dangers I will encounter on the road as I stagger on my own troubled passage through the complicated life of books that try to teach me how to die.

Because we're human. Like everyone else. And the older we get, the more human we get. The more human we get, the more painful everything becomes.

The American male is a quivering mass of insecurities. If a woman makes the mistake of loving him, he will make her suffer terribly for her utter lack of taste.

Even then, her interior life was far more important to her than her external one.

She had awakened something in him that had slumbered far too long. Not only did he feel passion, he felt the return of hope.

The American male is a quivering mass of insecurities. If a woman makes the mistake of loving him, he will make her suffer terribly for her utter lack of taste. I don't think men can ever forgive women for loving them to the exclusion of all others.

You're going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It's the hardest role in the world.

He lived out his whole life as an anthem to the pleasures of a bad mood.

One must always forgive another's passion.

The party was very painful to me, as parties usually were, and I felt the familiar loneliness of crowds.

Chad seemed both venomous and insecure, a flammable combination.

It's the great surprise of my life that I ended up loving [my father] so much.

I don't know when my parents began their war against each other – but I do know the only prisoners they took were their children.

Think instead about children. People. Human beings. Feel for once that education is about people—not figures.

I'm not mentally ill," she insisted, fidgeting in her chair. "I'm just very neurotic and I'm always falling in love with assholes.

it was but one of the things that made friendship with me an ambivalent enterprise.

They love their families with their hearts and souls and they wage war against them to prove it.

I still believe that they both loved us deeply, but, as with many parents, their love proved to be the most lethal thing about them.

When we cuss each other out, call each other the vilest names on earth, and put each other down with thoughtless cruelty, it is the only way we know and the only language we have to express our ardent love for each other.

I never seemed to learn from joy; I earned my portion of wisdom through sadness.

I'm sorry your bad dream died, I said as I left her and walked toward the gate. And I'm sorry I ever met you, Annie Kate.

let them feel the hurt and sorrow of history.