Quotes About Emotions

By late afternoon I'm ready to strangle Riva Chirenko's daughter. I don't know her name. Nobody calls her Mrs. Tomanovich. She's Mr. Tomanovich's wife. Riva's daughter. Irena Tomanovich's mother. She's what's wrong with all of us women, that schleppe from the steppe. But at other times it is this same woman, Riva Chirenko's daughter, that I respect, revere. If I could only accept as she has done, just accept. Acceptance is faith, Henry Miller said. I could strangle him too.

I can't handle you being dead, Ter. But you know that.

Tony no abrió los ojos. Cualquiera que diga que sabe cómo te sientes es un iluso.

Y luego una carta de mi madre, que se olvidó de mi cumpleaños, pero se acordó de decirme que no les he dado más que decepciones. La mandé al infierno, en una carta, y en mi corazón. También yo estoy asqueada y harta de culpa. Llegó el destierro formal: no he 'merecido la preocupación y los disgustos' que les he dado. Vale, tampoco ha merecido la pena intentar no dárselos." - Bienvenida a casa de Lucia Berlin

I get mad at everyone because they are working, living. Sometimes I hate you because you're not dying. Isn't that awful?

Quem diz que sabe exatamente como outra pessoa se sente é um idiota.

Qué era el amor?, se preguntaba Maria, estudiando las líneas limpias de la cara de Dixon mientras dormía. Qué nos impide hacerlo a ninguno de los dos, amar. (Del cuento Bonetes azules)

Quantas vezes na minha vida eu estive, por assim dizer, na varanda dos fundos, e não na varanda da frente? O que será que me disseram que eu não ouvi? Que amor poderia ter existido que eu não senti?

We get used to seeing the patients ill; even used to them dying. When they do we get upset if we know them. We can't get upset for those we don't know. We have to forget them. We'd all have nervous breakdowns if we didn't.

Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness . . . but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.

that at all. We're so used to failure, to being hurt and rebuffed, that we can easily come unhinged by success.

i bear witness to no thing more human than hate i bear witness to no thing more human than love

Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I've been spending more time alone than I'd like.

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.

The way I look at life, whatever I'm doing at that time in my life is going to be reflected in my songs, for the most part.

Hay tales misterios en el corazón humano; abismos tan profundos, de amor, de abnegación, de generosidad, que la palabra no conseguirá jamás explicarlos. Hay que sentir y callar. Por eso una mirada, un abrazo, un ademán con la mano, dicen más que todo cuanto la pluma más hábilmente manejada pueda describir.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

from that day forward she lived happily ever after. Except for the dying at the end. And the heartbreak in between.

From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.