Quotes About Emotions

She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as it is perhaps the best of graces: the feel deeply, to care profoundly.

Guilt and shame have, until now, kept me silent on this issue. I am old enough, even if just twenty, to know that I have no logical reason to feel either guilt or shame, that I was the victim, not the victimizer. Yet I've been so long marinated in both emotions that they will forever flavor me.

to waste energy and time fanning the flames of anger

He supposed he had gone somewhat mad, but a little madness was preferable to unending despair.

Patience, steadiness, and hope are healthier than anger;

Look at those hands, Oh God, those hands toiled to raise me. —Elvis Presley at his mother's casket

Only now does he realize that the worst of all miseries to afflict the human heart is loneliness.

If emotions were universal, then in one sense he was not alone, never had been alone, and never could be alone....No pain or happiness was unique. All humanity drank from the same river of emotion; and by drinking, every race, religion, and nationality became one indivisible species.

He's one of those dangerous people that we call sociopaths. He fakes being human, because he lacks all the emotions you and I feel. He cares only about himself, and if he felt he could get away with it, he would commit any atrocity you can imagine, without remorse.

Friendship is an illusion.. Like love and compassion!

he expressed his love more often with pats on the head and affectionate smiles than with kisses and extravagant proclamations of devotion.

But no lie, regardless of how well intended, could deceive in telepathic communication, because the truth of the sender's motives was inextricably bound up in the emotions that were transmitted with the words.

Until they move on from this world, even the dead can know fear. You would think they have nothing to lose, but sometimes they are wretched with anxiety, not about what might lie Beyond, but about those whom they have left behind.

The man you were still lives within you, repressed by the man you have struggled to become.

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. When

At last her mother looks up from the book and smiles and says, "I read to keep from being sad.

Fear is useful when it's on a leash, Avi once said, but it's always a bad dog when you let it run free in your mind.

To speak of the past, to describe her ordeal, she has nothing but words, and words are insufficient to the task; mere words will reduce the sacred to tabloid-newspaper sensationalism. And then she'll have nothing.

the only companion with which he felt comfortable was sorrow.

When you grow up, Jonah, women are gonna break your heart so often, you lose count.

But the heart is deceitful above all things.

Grief thrived in a quiet heart, and right now hers thundered with terror and revulsion

However, madness is a different thing from sociopathy, and the potential lies in every heart.

but that tenderness is a vain form of pity