Quotes About Emotions

Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.

Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.

It was like the classic scene in the movies where one lover is on the train and one is on the platform and the train starts to pull away, and the lover on the platform begins to trot along and then jog and then sprint and then gives up altogether as the train speeds irrevocably off. Except in this case I was all the parts: I was the lover on the platform, I was the lover on the train. And I was also the train.

Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.

No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all that mixed-up nature swirling inside, every bit. There was nothing as complex in the world - no flower or stone - as a single hello from a human being.

She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.

The optimistic nature finds joy in the very feeling for life; the pessimistic nature finds a feeling for life only in joy.

Children of defectives often feel guilt." These words seared into my brain.

This was insanity. This was coming out of my mouth and it was madness.

We were speaking in feelings. Words were not enough.

The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel.

The opposite of passionate love is not hatred; it is indifference.

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

Life's like forever becoming But life's forever dealing in hurt Now life's like death without living That's what life's like without you ... What good are these thoughts that I'm thinking It must be better not to be thinking at all A styrofoam lover with emotions of concrete No not much, not much at all ... What's good? What's good? Not much at all Life's good- But not fair at all - What's Good - The Thesis from Magic and Loss

I am tired, I am weary. I could sleep for a thousand years, a thousand dreams that would awake me. Different colors made of tears. The Velvet Underground, from "Venus In Furs," The Velvet Underground & Nico. Produced by Andy Warhol (Verve, 1967)

Let's do what you fear most That from which you recoil But which still makes your eyes moist

Anyone who ever had a heart, He wouldn?t turn around and break it. Anyone who ever played a part, he wouldn?t turn around and fake it. Sweet Jane

If you have no more happiness to give me, / Well then! you still have your pain.

Anyway, Lisa probably said it best: "We made our own happiness but I don't think we were a happy family.

Be careful whom you fall in love with, because your better judgment can be overwhelmed by your emotions. You know when a situation isn't God's best, so don't just drift along and tell yourself, "I can always fix the problems later." Before you know it, emotion kicks in and there goes your judgment. All of a sudden, you are in a serious relationship with someone whom—if you thought about it honestly—you know you shouldn't be with.

Anger is not wrong. But if anger is uncontrolled, stuffed, misplaced, or given full vent, then anger can do us a lot of harm.

His feelings were rooted in his inability to process life under the canopy of the grace and the love of God. Here's how Eliab expressed his anger—verbally.

Una ira con razón, pero expresada de forma indebida. Realmente tienes algo por lo cual estar enojado, pero la estás expresando en toda clase de maneras indebidas. Tu ira destruye puentes. Le hace daño a la gente que te rodea, y te daña a ti también.

If you're feeling lousy and you sin in an attempt to feel better, whatever pain you're feeling right now will still be there tomorrow morning, only worse.