Quotes About Emotions

There's no quantifying someone else's problems as big or small. Although to one person, it may seem slight...there's no way to tell how greatly that same thing may be hurting someone else inside.

Of such rejected pieces of ourselves are our devils made.

Is this every kid's worst fear - that his mother and father don't love him? It was mine. (239)

Perhaps nature rations tears. That would be very sensible. You are born with three million one hundred and seventy-two potential tears, and you can use them up by the time you are eighteen or you can conserve them.

I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me.

The less a person understands his own feelings, the more he will fall prey to them. The less a person understands the feelings, the responses, and the behavior of others, the more likely he will interact inappropriately with them and therefore fail to secure his proper place in the world.

Money can't buy happiness.

How do you go on knowing that you will never again - not ever, ever - see the person you have loved? How do you survive a single hour, a single minute, a single second of that knowledge? How do you hold yourself together?

So many unhappy women out there. Such a sea of female misery.

Just when you've overcome the grief, you realise you are left with the loneliness.

Could that be why Treslove so often found himself alone? Was he protecting himself against the companioned happiness he longed for because he dreaded how he would feel when it was taken from him?

A rational man proportions his belief to the evidence," Hume said. The brain study cited by Shermer indicates that we too often do the opposite. We proportion our beliefs to our emotions and process the evidence as our feelings demand

In real life, couples bond and war over a million different things. The causes of divorce are like beautiful, unique snowflakes.

What good is intelligence,' Akutagawa asked, 'if you can't ever discover a useful melancholy?

When I returned, I never once walked past the house where my mother, aunt, and I lved together...It was as if the past would judge me. The house would judge me. That merely looking at it would somehow cause me to calibrate my life, and in all aspects of usefulness I would come up short.

I have always thought a person needs to constantly refine the capacity to suspend disbelief in order to keep emotions organized and not suffer debilitating confusion, and I mean just toward the things of daily life. I suppose this admits to a desperate sort of pragmatism. Still, it works for me. What human heart isn't in extremis?

The thing unspoken often settles most bitterly in the heart

My mother and Alexis had said no more than ten words to each other. The long silences were deafening

Muriel sometimes put her emotions on highest exhibit by exaggerating a suppression of them.

One of the terrible tragedies, for me, was the fact that my father passed away before he could witness what I achieved.

The merchant's success depends on his or her ability to tell a story. What people see or hear or smell or do when they enter a space guides their feelings, enticing them to celebrate whatever the seller has to offer.

Empathy and emotions do not equate to knowledge or true understanding about others' circumstances.

There are...emotions, traumas, and transitions in every family that faces don't reflect and film doesn't capture. (255)

high spirits and overflowing joy making the absence of love known.