Quotes About Emotions

The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.

Why do dying people never shed tears?

It doesn't matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn't matter if you're scared to death when the lights go on.

I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.

The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters.

How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.

There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.

Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his friends, still, after all these years... it's unbelievable.

The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's dying don't give him pity for others.

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.

You never really feel somebody's suffering. You only feel their death.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.

Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

With the benefit of hindsight, the content of that letter has bothered me since her death.

After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more.

The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.

Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust.

A parting is sadder than a death, Ma always said, for two people are dead to one another and yet go on living.

After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.

Divorce is probably as painful as death.

Death makes sad stories of us all.

A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.