Quotes About Emotions

They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.

Before him, numberless lovers smiled and talked. And death was observed with sudden cries, And birth with laughter and pain. And the trees grew taller and blacker against the skies And night came down again.

When a person is understanding of situations, they are more likely to remain in control of their emotions during situations, even when the situations become chaotic.

Emotions and irrational thoughts tend to cloud our mind. They make our mind foggy so we can't think in the ways we should when situations arise. When our minds become cloudy, we don't always think before we act or speak. Instead, we act irrationally and sometimes quickly, which could easily make the situation worse.

Ernest Hemingway once advised prose artists to 'Write hard and clear about what hurts.

Ernest Hemingway once advised prose artists to "Write hard and clear about what hurts." It's good advice. But to follow it, you must stop reading.

I am pained that you should say so, my lady. I will be sorry to be parted from you.

A plange e o impudoare la fel de mare ca a te arata gol-pusca. Larimile sunt mai intime decat pielea.

Muito mais trágico me parece o destino de quem atravessa a vida sem se molhar, como se os efeitos (felizes ou nefastos) escorressem sobre a pele como água sobre as plumas de um pato.

If you're at the end of your rope . . . untie the knot in your heart.

For her too, she had words on her lips, which died unborn, lay in her mind and turned to poison.

Her husband, like her children, was a person who often annoyed her but whom she loved very deeply.

Neurosexism promotes damaging, limiting, potentially self-fulfilling stereotypes. Three years ago, I discovered my son's kindergarten teacher reading a book that claimed that his brain was incapable of forging the connection between emotion and language. And so I decided to write this book.

Whereas I used to get depressed or neurotic or dwell on things, I see my son's bright eyes and smile in the morning, and suddenly, I don't feel like I'm depressed anymore. There's nothing to be depressed about when you've got that.

I'm always happy. But I often experience a bit of a wobble before I take off—a short period of time when all my doubts gang up against me.

From that day on I go to each door in turn and sing the three songs that I remember from school. Within a few days I'm overwhelmed how happy they appear to be when they hear or recognize me.

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you.

Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.

When I feel angry, I want to say something mean, or yell, or hit. But feeling like I want to is not the same as doing it. Feeling can't hurt anyone or get me into trouble, but doing can." (Bunny from picture book)

Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.

Extreme joy and extreme sorrow are indistinguishable beyond a certain point. ("Jane Brown's Body")

It wasn't an attack. We'd been together too many times before, made love together too many times before, for it to be that. It was just that fear had suddenly entered, and made us dangerous strangers. ("New York Blues")