Quotes About Emotions

Some things should hurt. Some things should leave you with scars. Some things should haunt your nightmares. Some things should be burned into memory.

Mathematically, maybe," I said. "But trust isn't one of those things that lends itself well to math." "Sure it does," Bob said. "You trust somebody, they betray you, you get a negative value. You never trust, they can never disappoint you, you break even.

I used to think I loved it. But now I realize that it's just dependency.

I react badly to fear. I don't usually have the good sense to run, or hide—I just try to smash whatever it is that is making me afraid. It's a primitive sort of thing, and one I don't question too much.

And you both hurt each other terribly, because you're family. Because what you say and do matters so much more than anyone else." She leaned down and put her cheek against my forehead. "Listen to me. I know it hurts right now. But the reason it hurts so much is because you care about each other so much. And that pain will eventually fade. But you'll both still care.

I thought about my father. I usually do, when I get that low. He was a good man, a generous man, a hopeless loser.

There was a universe of pain residing in that ellipses.

That was silly, to think that they would not love each other—but sometimes humans are slow to figure things out, because they are heart-stupid. You are, too. That's okay. Just get a dog. Dogs can teach you all kinds of things about your heart.

That woman, Grimm said quietly, drives me quite insane. Kettle grunted. Why'd you marry her, then?

Magic comes from life, from the energy of our world and from people, from their emotions and their will. That's what I had always been taught.

It's irrational and childish for me to be upset, and I don't care.

I know I've screwed up," I said. "I'm going to have to live with that. But I don't want to lose you.

Tavi eventually came to the conclusion that he was sulking.

People don't give a flying fuck if Uncle Jeffrey really forgives them for missing his last birthday party. They want to know that the world is a place where Uncle Jeffrey can and should forgive them.

That was the entire reason to have battle commanders in the first place—so that one man could balance the advantages of logic and reason against the emotional, insane demands of close battle.

I smoothed a bloodied lock of hair from her eyes and felt very tired as I said, "The only people who never hurt are dead.

People are likely to do the most ridiculously illogical things for the most incomprehensible of reasons.

Whatever the reason, I'm happy to remember the time we had.

Subtle and quick to anger?" "Not so subtle.

I'm dealing with a lot of scary things," she said. "I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane. Or you become like Martin. Shut off from everything and everyone. Trying not to feel.

The Queen closed her eye and nodded. She opened it again, and there was a tear tracking down her face. "I tried to be what I was meant to be, Father. It was never personal.

You can be such an asshole, Dresden, I swear.

I'm not saying pain is what defines us as human beings. But it is, in many ways, what unites us.

Monsters are born of pain and grief and loss and anger. Your heart is full of them.