Quotes About Emotions

There had been so many easy words between them that Daniel was guilty of nodding every now and then and tuning out the excess. He hadn't known, at the time, that he should have been hoarding these, like bits of sea glass hidden in the pocket of a winter coat to remind him that once it had been summer.

You can be happy for someone else's good fortune but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

You want to know what I want? I'm sick of being a guinea pig. I'm sick, but I'm never f*cking sick enough for this family.

I'm afraid that, if I let myself feel ecstatic about being with you, then when you leave me, I won't be able to pull myself back together..

You can believe, for example, that a dead-end job is a career. You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you're crippled by the thought of letting another person close enough to potentially scar you even more deeply. You can tell yourself that it's safer to love someone who will never really love you back, because you can't lose someone you never had.

Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief.

And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. —KAHLIL GIBRAN The Prophet

She falters, then gather up the weeds of her thoughts and offers me the saddest, truest bouquet.

Every life has a soundtrack.

You can't grieve something if you don't let yourself get close enough to care.

What you notice is the loneliness. Daniel started to isolate himself, because it hurt less than being pushed away.

My family know not to get me any tech for Christmas. I can never get it to work, and it all becomes very tearful and pressurised.

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

When I design, I always pull from things that are significant to me. In my work, I search for happiness and then try to convey that joy in the clothes.

I'm relieved that after all these years of doing atrocity work, I still cry my eyes out every time I read the paper in the morning. It's surprising, actually.

I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.

I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.

Everyone finds my work super sad. I never do. I always find it uplifting in a weird way.

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad!

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

I've grown as a person. The dynamics on this set are very demanding because we work a lot of hours, it's very sad material, so there's always someone upset because it's really heavy stuff.

So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.

Mixed messages are just part and parcel of the romantic terrain, and rather than berate yourself for any crossed wires, you'd do better to work on your future resilience.

Sometimes, you have to make the choice to forgive 10 times a day when you have these pockets of anger come up. That's a lot of work, but to me it's worthwhile.