Quotes About Emotions

mistaking in his dull, never to be matured mind, her loneliness for respect of his strength and virility)

He flowed deeper and deeper into himself, wrapped in the comforting strength of hate.

But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--

The voice so filled with nostalgia that you could almost see the memories floating through the blue smoke, memories not only of music and joy and youth, but perhaps, of dreams. They listened to the music, each hearing it in his own way, feeling relaxed and a part of the music, a part of each other, and almost a part of the world.

All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.

No matter how beautiful the outside may be, the inside still has feelings and needs that just words don't fulfill.

Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.

Just because you love someone doesnt mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.

Some friendships fade. Others dissolve under stress or disagreement. Still other friends just leave. Those that stick, however, are almost irreplaceable; and the sadness of long life is losing friends.

I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

We have no use for emotions, let alone sentiments, but are solely concerned with passions.

When books sweep the world with characters and plots that seem unutterably grim...you have to ask whether we willingly incorperate such material into our lives because we need more shadows, clouds, drama, or perhaps because vicarious exposure to such material equips us, psychologically, for potential exposure to the real thing. [p35, Chapter 1 Taking the rough with the smooth]

we might do well to accept that a noble, courageous, well-lived life is one in which we are equipped to experience and negotiate the full range of emotions: neither seduced by the lure of happiness nor obsessed by the grim and gritty aspects of life, but open to whatever comes and ready to learn from it all.

Signs of the purest form of human love: the love that has nothing to do with emotion or affection; the love that say we will treat each other kindly and respectfully, regardless of how we happen to feel about each other, because we know that's the only way a human community can thrive. p19 [Prologue: A Loving Country?]

Wise Penelope! That's was Odysseus said to his wife when he got home. I don't think he ever told her he loved her. He probably knew the words would sound too small.

I talk because I feel, and I talk to you because I want you to know how I feel.

We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.

You say you just want to be my friend. I know that you mean you want to relate to my mind but not my body. I can understand that and will not ask you to relate to me in a way that you don't want to, or talk to me about subjects you find uncomfortable. But likewise I refuse to castrate myself for you by pretending not to have the feelings I have. If you want me as your friend you will have to accept my penis along with me.

There are no absolutes for something so relative as a human life. There are no rules for something so gentle as a heart.

Nought remains But vindictiveness here amid the strong, And there amid the weak an impotent rage.

Ese grado de sensibilidad, uno tiene que y uno puede desarrollarlo. La capacidad de amar es infinita, es infinita, infinita. Desarrollémosla.

I bring in my heart the weeping and crying Caribbean Orinoco.