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Quotes About Emotions

incidents of virtually no significance threw me to the stars or plunged me into speechless depressions
~ Donna Tartt
I wanted her to know just how much I loved her while also letting her know that she bore not one particle of blame for not loving me back.
~ Donna Tartt
But, I suspect, in all lives there are certain emotional scenes, those in which our passions have been most wildly and terribly roused, that are of all others the most vaguely and dimly remembered.
~ Unknown
The human mind, I take it, must have either comfort in the past or hope in the future," he continued, "otherwise it is in danger.
~ Unknown
Behind tranquillity lies conquered unhappiness.
~ Unknown
I try not to watch the news. Too depressing.
~ J.A. Konrath
Happiness isn't about what you do, Jack. It's about how you feel about what you do.
~ J.A. Konrath
You act like you have a saggy diaper that leaks." "Maybe you need to take your Shut-The-Hell-Up pill.
~ J.A. Konrath
Then I'm making a choice right now, to not join you in your self-loathing pity party. Guilt and regret are useless emotions.
~ J.A. Konrath
Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less
~ J.A. Redmerski
The greater are our affections the deeper are our afflictions, and the more we love the more we have to weep.
~ J.C. Ryle
There is an incessant craving after any teaching that is sensational, exciting, and stirs up emotion. There is an unhealthy appetite for a sort of intermittent and emotional Christianity. The religious life of many is little better than spiritual taste testing, and the agreeable spirit and peaceful that Peter commends is completely forgotten (1 Peter 3:4). Crowds, crying, feelings, entertaining singing, and an incessant stirring up of the emotions are the only things that many people care for.
~ J.C. Ryle
religious feelings are worse than worthless if they are not accompanied by practice. Mere emotional excitement, without completely breaking off from sin, is not the repentance that God approves.
~ J.C. Ryle
No. No, I don't believe you'd betray me with her. I don't believe you'd cheat on me. But I'm afraid, and I'm sick in my heart that you might look at her, then at me. And regret.
~ J.D. Robb
No. No, I don't believe you'd betray me with her. I don't believe you'd cheat on me. But I'm afraid, and I'm sick in my heart that you might look at her, then at me. And regret.
~ J.D. Robb
For once, he slept first. She lay in the dark, listening to him breathe, stealing a little of his warmth as her own body cooled. Since he was asleep, she stroked his hair. "I love you," she murmured. "I love you so much, I'm stupid about it." With a sigh, she settled down, closed her eyes, and willed her mind to empty. Beside her, Roarke smiled into the dark. He never slept first.
~ J.D. Robb
You--Roarke." Eyes watering, she reached for more tissue. "Jesus, Eve. Jesus Christ, you never sleep with anybody. And you're telling me you slept with Roarke?" "That's not precisely accurate. We didn't sleep.
~ J.D. Robb
Being with her can prove difficult, but life without her would be unbearable.
~ J.E. Johnson
He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him
~ Unknown
And, at such a time, for a few of us there will always be a tugging at the heart—knowing a precious moment had gone and we not there. We can ask and ask but we can't have again what once seemed ours for ever—the way things looked, that church alone in the fields, a bed on belfry floor, a remembered voice, a loved face. They've gone and you can only wait for the pain to pass.
~ Unknown
I knew those feelings of wanting to be with another brother were not dead; they were just asleep.
~ Unknown
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
~ J.M. Barrie
Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
~ J.M. Barrie
Well, that is what you risk when you fall in love. You risk losing your dignity.
~ J.M. Coetzee