Quotes About Emotions

All her life, loneliness had weighed against her like a heavy coin tucked into a breast pocket, small but constant.

It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all, but if one more person said that to her, Jodi swore she was going to lose it.

Baseball breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. —A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI

Use your memories to create something that keeps you warm at night, instead of clinging to worn-out emotions that tie you to past mistakes. We are all flawed, but we are also all perfect in our humanity.

some things are just beyond our control and the heart wants what the heart wants whether it makes logical sense or not.

when he was a little kid he'd had trouble understanding why those poor children in China were more important to them than he was.

the same and you know it." "Isn't it? So you had your heart broken. Any of us that have been around for any length of time have had our hearts broken. That's life.

When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.

O my floating lifeDo not save lovefor thingsThrow thingsto the flood

Know amazedly how often one takes his madness into his own hands and keeps it.

Who but my mother held those small pieces of my childhood? Where would they go when she was gone?

Spike is sensitive not only in that he is easily hurt but also in the "feminine" way of being attuned to situations, relationships, and underlying emotions, as his frequently perceptive comments demonstrate. this ability to articulate his emotions also explains why his character fits so well into "Buffy", a show that consistently values this trait...

I used to think love could save anything, but it can't if the vessel's cracked.

I hate the way bitterness is like a black, bubbling tar pit in me, and I hate the way so many memories of you are in that pit.

I guess when someone's really hurt you, there always seems to be a possibility for more.

She felt like a bad actress in a play she never wanted to be in.

A tear fell from her son's eye and splashed on Olive's cheek, which shamed away her vanity, making her want to concentrate on bigger issues. Fletcher, I love you! It was hard for me to show it—I had to make a living for us, didn't I?—but honestly, Fletcher, you were a prince among sons. A prince! How did a gentleman like you come from a cad like your father?

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.

The children of violently unhappy marriages, like my mother, are often hamstrung for life, but the children of happier marriages have problems too - all the worse, perhaps, because they don't have virtue on their side.

Do I often feel conflicted or ambivalent regarding my relationship with this person?

Wir lachen gemeinsam, weil wir lange genug allein geweint haben.

Love isn't found in words, Kate. It's found in quiet moments, a look, a sigh, a smile, a gladness." She sighed. "And very often, it's shown with sacrifice.

It's difficult when you love someone whom you know on some level is wicked.

Oh, Papa, I've done something terribly silly. I've fallen in love with someone, and he loves another. The strange thing is, as much as it hurts, I only want him to be happy. And if she'll make him happy, I want him to have her.