Quotes About Emotions

I knew then that I would have to be careful. I would have to wear gloves, to leave no trace when I burgled the crammed house of feeling and took for my own use exuberance depression suspicion terror.

I went towards the stairs, just as the band was playing 'Now is the Hour', and the music reached down like a long spoon inside me and stirred, and stirred.

She needn't have worried. It was her mind he wanted to reach, and nobody , by conversation, could ever reach Grace's mind. Like the grave, it was a "private place", and could not be shared.

Once you have become good at being a compliment detective, it's time to share some of your feelings with others. The following three-step formula will make it easy: (1) Be specific. (2) Say the person's name. (3) Follow up with a question.

Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I'm in a space that is not positive.

To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift.

Foot," she said in a matching torrent of Jannisetti curses, "Heel. Sole. Toes, with green toenail polish!

Human nature is such that when we are suddenly taken up by someone whom we consider superior and admirable, we accept his attentions calmly, whereas when we are dropped we cannot rest until we feel we have got to the bottom of the person's profound irrationality.

Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

The expression on her face is scarier than an actress in one of dad's horror movies.

Sometimes love isn't fireworks, sometimes love just comes softly.

True love is born of experience, not fairy dust.

Memories are beautiful things, Boy. When the person that ya loved is gone, when the happy time is over, then ya've still got yer memories. Thank God fer this special gift of His that lets ya sorta live yer experiences again and again. S'pose there ain't no price one would settle on fer the worth of memories.

Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart.

Happy people are rarely interesting.

She cried so hard her tears formed a river, and tears of grief always run into the river Styx.

Let's (first single quote is backwards) just be friends' usually works." Roark

Hi, Dane. Miss me?" He let out a laugh that sounded more ironic than amused. "Every day. And especially when it rains.

Tu es tres belle quand tu marches dans les vestibules, quand tu empiles des livres, et quand tu pleures.

Money is like hormones. It's just how you feel on any given day.

I was in that dark, self-destructive place. I was up one minute, down the next. Soaring and crashing and crashing and soaring; the roller coaster from hell.

You would think there's a natural limit to tears: only so much the body can give at one sitting before it runs dry.

Needing people yet being afraid of them is wearing me out.