Quotes About Emotions

He said the best contract lawyers were the ones who heard the unspoken. The hopes and dreams and fears that both sides held, sometimes so tightly they didn't even know it themselves. A good contract attorney has to be a mediator first and foremost. And the best mediator is someone who can translate conflicting emotions into some form of harmony. But to do that, they have to look beneath the surface. See the unseen. Hear the unspoken.

I started playing that game I play when I'm feeling lonely, the one where I review all of my prior relationships, marveling that so many sweet, smart, pretty girls have come into my life and that I've found a way to fuck things up with every one of them.

If you ever try to change my memories again, I will slap you into next spring." I took a breath, knees shaking as I felt small beside him, my white dress brushing against his black trousers. Some women get flowers or poems from their suitors. I get insults and threats.

While love is celebrated, we are assured that a satisfying sexual encounter does not require love. If the Shirelles tune were written today, the singer would likely have to lower the bar down to "Will You Respect Me Tomorrow"—if even that.

No one but a person who has been guilty himself could read guilt in others so well.

It was not a jolly place at all for a sun-loving soul

It was frightening to wake up in the morning and know that love did not last, no matter how it was treated.

Oh, of course, it was a sad role, the lover no longer loving. But once the perfunctory sympathy was given him the heart went outfully to oneself, the real victim, the unloved.

The story is, a man came up to Yosemite and the ranger was sitting at the front gate and the man said, I've only got one hour to see Yosemite. If you only had one hour to see Yosemite, what would you do? And the ranger said, Well, I'd go right over there, and I'd sit on that rock, and I'd cry. - Nevada Barr

We almost killed ourselves with rage. We would grow up trampling over things, tearing things down, and people would look at us and wonder why we had such violence in our hearts.

Most dreams die a slow death. They're conceived in a moment of passion, with the prospect of endless possibility, but often languish and are not pursued with the same heartfelt intensity as when first born. Slowly, subtly, a dream becomes elusive and ephemeral. People who've lost their own dreams become pessimists and cynics. They feel like the time and devotion spent on chasing their dreams were wasted. The emotional scars last forever.

Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.

the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul

I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.

I can love October in September. September doesn't care.

But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.

You can't fix things with a hug, but you can't make them any worse either.

Sometimes complex and difficult moral choices are decided less by reason and by right than by sentiment. Perhaps such decisions are paving stones on the road to Hell; if so, my route is well paved, and the welcoming committee all ready knows my name.

and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.

Like me, you are human, after all, and we know what a joy and terror that is.

Time doesn't, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might in its own way be even more intense.

we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy