Quotes About Emotions

The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

Those who do not weep, do not see.

Tout le mal vient de ce que l'on pense, ou plutôt de ce qu'il y a en vous un être qui pense à votre insu puis tout à coup émet dans le silence du cerveau un petite phrase acide, insupportable, après laquelle on ne peut plus vivre comme auparavant

Pitoyable, celui qui ne songe qu'à sa propre vie, à sa propre mort, il n'a rien compris... et qu'il s'en aille alors, c'est le mieux qu'il puisse faire, qu'il s'en aille avec notre pitié...

Suicide is often an act of vitality, and even — if it is not the result of neurosis — the act of a person who is powerfully attached to life.

However, the natural sounds and gestures produced by all non-human primates are highly stereotyped and limited in the type and number of messages they convey, consisting mainly of emotional responses to particular situations. They have no way of expressing the anger they felt yesterday or the anticipation of tomorrow.

Then I shall be devastated. My heart will be crushed as thoroughly as dust beneath your feet". "Oh, we can't have that". Her eyes widened in an innocent manner he didn't believe for a moment. "I quite detest dust".

I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.

Hennes självbedrägeri ljög fram en vrångbild, som i mycket liknade lyckan.

Blame has no face. I have walked on its staircase, around and around, trying to slap its face but only hitting my own cheeks.

The way memory gets up after someone has died and starts walking.

When I told my children, the three of us hugged in a circle, burst into tears. As if the tears were already there crying on their own and we, the newly bereaved, exploded into them.

This time gap can never be overcome. The difference is called grieving.

It is frightening to feel that all your happiness is bound up to another person. That without them you don't - you don't particularly want to live'.

It does not matter how sternly you tell yourself that the crippling paranoia of the small hours of the night is due solely to body chemistry. You still feel absolutely miserable.

The search for identity in one's youth is a journey of alternate boredom and agony interrupted by flash of joy.

I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat.

There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with it.

I was crazy back then, I must admit. I had an extreme attitude.

We can't always control what happens in our lives- things will go well, things will go poorly-but what we can control is our response to those events.

Attitudes are contagious. Mine might kill you.