Quotes About Emotions

This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose

In this momentous night, however, he knew far more sadness than grief, and while deep sadness bruises the heart, it doesn't leave the enduring scars of profound grief.

Every home ceased to be a home sooner or later, but not with its demolition. It survived destruction as long as just one person who had loved it still lived. Home was the story of what happened there, not the story of where it happened.

Although words are the world and were the birthing of the world, there are no words to express what I felt at that moment, no words for the dimensions of my joy, for the great buoyancy that overcame my spirit, for the depth of my gratitude, for the brightness of my hope.

To those who lack a conscience, there is no such thing as remorse.

Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well.

Hatred and anger are only scars upon a beach, while love is the rolling surf that ceaselessly smooths the sand.

If you evoked that frown, what you feared was his disapproval, and when you learned that you had disappointed him, you realized that you needed his approval no less than you needed air, water, and food.

The chief characteristics of my childhood were an aching loneliness and the daily struggle to avoid a bleakness of spirit that unrelieved loneliness can foment.

I read to keep from being sad.

The cataract of grief is a longer drop than Niagara, and I guess I've not reached the river of acceptance at the bottom.

A truly nice smile combined with self-control can take a person a long way.

Between a man and woman in love, no lie is small or harmless.

Her grief was now doubled by his grief. She wondered how many heartbreaks a child so young could endure.

Asshole." "Your mother never taught you words like that." "You don't know my mother," she said thickly.

I reminded myself that the heart is deceitful above all things.

Guns don't feel nothin' about you, one way or t'other. No fair reason for you to feel bad towards them.

Before she risked getting a dog, she also had to find out how she would deal with the loss of Snowball when he died. If losing a mouse wrecked her, then a dog's death would absolutely destroy her, no doubt about it, none at all.

Everyone thinks his family is strange, Del said, scratching Scootie behind the ears, but it's just that... because we're closer to the people we love, we tend to see them through a magnifying glass, through a thicker lens of emotion, and we exaggerate their eccentricities.

Regardless of how rough we may appear on the exterior, each of us had a human heart.

isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.

envy is second only to self-pity as the most dangerous of all emotions.

I understood for the first time why music matters so much, how it reminds us of who we are and where we came from, of all the good times and the sadness, too.

lies such as love, guilt, hate, courage, loyalty, and honor.