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Quotes About Emotions

Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own pity.
~ Chris Cleave
The worst thing would be to decide that it was love, and then to discover - after one was taken - that it hadn't been. No: the worst thing would be to decide that it wasn't love, and then to discover years later - old and unconsoled - that it had been. No: the worst thing - the worst, worst thing - was this having to decide.
~ Chris Cleave
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive .
~ Chris Cleave
turned out that the only difference between children and adults was that children were prepared to put twice the energy into the project of not being sad.
~ Chris Cleave
In a few breaths' time I will speak some sad words to you. But you must hear them the same way we have agreed to see scars now. Sad words are just another beauty.....
~ Chris Cleave
It turned out that the only difference between children and adults was that children were prepared to put twice the energy into the project of not being sad.
~ Chris Cleave
I ask you right here to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must see all scars as beauty... because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived. Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this story teller is alive. The next think you know, something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.
~ Chris Cleave
If you cannot read the beautiful things that have happened in someone's life, why should you care about their sadness?
~ Chris Cleave
The true moments of one's life were sadder for the fact that they must always be synchronized with the ordinary: with rail timetables, with breaks in traffic.
~ Chris Cleave
If I was telling this story to the girls from back home, I would have to explain to them how it was possible to be drowning in a river of people and also feel so very, very alone.
~ Chris Cleave
We have our agreement about scars, I know, but this time I looked away because sometime you can see too much beauty.
~ Chris Cleave
She supposed she must be in love. That [he] was slightly infuriating, and that she didn't mind in the slightest, might be proof of it.
~ Chris Cleave
It was depression that killed Andrew, of course - depression and guilt. But my son didn't believe in death, let alone in the capacity of mere emotions to cause it.
~ Chris Cleave
When you make a man ashamed, you make him dangerous.
~ Chris Cleave
Siz makineler dünyas?nda ya??yorsunuz ve kalbi çarpan ?eylerin dü?ünü kuruyorsunuz.Biz makineleri dü?lüyoruz çünkü çarpan kalplerin bizi terk etti?ini gördük.
~ Chris Cleave
Tom wouldn't want us to be sad. I took crocuses to his grave this morning. I arranged them as best I could, and then I came home.....One does not rise above the everyday simply because one ought to. In the end I suppose we lay flowers on a grave because we cannot lay ourselves on it.
~ Chris Cleave
You live in a world of machines and you dream of things with beating hearts. We dream of machines, because we see where beating hearts have left us.
~ Chris Cleave
In a few breaths' time I will speak some sad words to you. But you must hear them the same way we have agreed to see scars now. Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know, something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.
~ Chris Cleave
In the history of the world there was not one example of a man ever having written a satisfactory letter to a woman who mattered to him.
~ Chris Cleave
Sometimes I feel as lonely as the Queen of England.
~ Chris Cleave
You could only be sad if you let yourself join the dots, if you allowed the scatter of moments in their totality to have some kind of a downward trend that you might be dumb enough to extrapolate.
~ Chris Cleave
did not cry when they killed my sister but I did cry when I heard the music coming out of the soldiers' truck because I was thinking, That is my sister's favorite song and she will never hear it again.
~ Chris Cleave
That is the nature of this madness. It fills the sky with barrage balloons and people's eyes with hate.
~ Chris Cleave
I wasn't going to get such a nice car - I was going to get a cute little hybrid or something, keep the trees happy - but then my grandfather died, and it was all: retail therapy!
~ Chris Colfer