Quotes About Emotions

Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.

Poems help to keep human beings actually responding as human beings to the sufferings of others.

When I talk to people about what makes us human, some people say it's our tears. Because we are the only ones who weep, only we can feel true sorrow. When I hear this, I remember Isiro's face, her anguished eyes as she cried for Mikeno, how she screamed at the keepers with her teeth bared and pushed at the poles. How she dashed back to his body and dug her fingers into his chest as if the strength of her grip could bring him back. There is sorrow without tears. Of course there is.

Claudine tells me there was fluid around Bolombe's heart. That the stress of his capture was too much. I always thought hearts were broken, but apparently they drown.

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.

When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, its about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome.

You won't feel under-dressed when with your naked heart you come to me, for mine is past the point to dress for company.

Hate: return to sender; address unknown.

My mother used poetry and the arts as a thermometer—if I cried, it meant my heart had not grown cold, my sensibility was alive and well.

The people knew what had made them human; it was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic and it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

Unendo le loro giovinezze, amandosi, Ugo e Gesuina hanno rotto i ponti con tutta una parte del loro passato che li aveva attardati in emozioni precarie, in avventure innaturali ove anche i loro sentimenti si erano smarriti e adulterati. E se l'amore è il fondersi di due pianeti che si cercavano nello spazio del giorno della Creazione, essi formano adesso un'unica luce.

Le persone che più mi hanno giovato, e con le quali speravo di fare un lungo pezzo di strada, ora questo ora quello, mi sono scappate davanti agli occhi senza saper come

Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing . . . [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.

I stayed with my wife's mother during the war. I understood the war because I fought with my wife's mother.

Life, dreams, thoughts. Formless and endless. A billion years before our birth. A billion years after it. And in the middle, for a single moment, to see only one person, feeling everything else covered in a white light.

Great thoughts come from the heart

I run to the water's edge and the cold ocean licks my toes. Without touching my face I can feel that it's wet with fog and tears and sweat. I stand there, on the cusp of the ocean and listen to its loud inhale. And then it recedes and takes everything from my childhood with it the porcelain dolls, the tap-dancing shoes, the concert ticket stubs, the tiny trophies, and the long, long swing.

They are tired of each other already. Either that, I think, or they're going to go fuck after this. I have many different and somewhat contradictory ideas of how adult seduction works.

how precious individuals and places become the moment that the possibility of leaving them turns into fact.

The sound of Kiser's departing car had hardly died away before Romey with a stony glint in the depths of his eyes asked, "Mary Call, how long is temporary?" I said, "Romey, there is the dictionary over there. It's smarter than I am. Ask it.

I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.