Quotes About Emotions

He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.

Where are people going? I wonder what they hope will happen and what they are afraid of? For me it's the same thing and has to do with being loved.

We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,And that's the burden of a year.

My hope is that no matter your mood there is [on a Joyride albom] a song on there that speaks to you.

... back then the sky seemed so vast. And now the sky above me... is low, and narrow, and heavy.

Sometimes, when people look at me, I can see the pity in their eyes. All I want is hope, but neither of us can give it to each other.

Tears terrify people more than anger because they attach to your heart and leave angels of mercy to shout in your mind.

I may not always like at times, but life is a beautiful blend of joy, tragedy and dreams. If not for one, I could not have the other.

Sometimes the darkness finds us, that will always be inevitable. If one chooses to manifest such feelings creatively, then it really isn't darkness at all.

I'd rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end…

Some days are better than others. The same can be said about people.

..giving into despair was like eating poisonous berries to keep from feeling hungry.

At the heart of her bad nature, like many bad natures, was probably envy. And at the heart of envy was possibly hope - that the good fortune of others might one day be hers

Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.

The sorrow, grief, and rage you feel is a measure of your humanity and your evolutionary maturity. As your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal.

In our inherent contradictions as humans, and in order to validate our own pain, we deny the pain of others. But it is in acknowledging the pain of others that we achieve fully our humanity.

The artist enriches the soul of humanity. The artist delights people with a thousand different shades of feeling.

My cat speaks sign language with her tail.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.

Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate forms of love.

As human beings, why does it take somebody to feel like they're close to us for us to see their humanity? Why can't we see the humanity in people that are distant from us?

Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity.