Quotes About Emotions

Psychiatry is the management of despair.

It may be that the strongest instinct of the human race, stronger than sex or hunger, is curiosity: the absolute need to know. It can and often does motivate a lifetime, it kills more than cats, and the prospect of satisfying it can be the most exciting of emotions.

I didn't know that love is not about what we do, but who we are, convincing others of our love for them...and about who loves us.

When it came to my heart I felt everything okay, but when I tried to express my feelings the words came out of me like invisible ink.

I'd slink back to my room and curl up on the bed like a fish-hook and cry until I was rusty.

Of course I still love my grandma even after all the awful stuff she did to me, which is scary that you can love someone who is not nice. I guess that is what getting better will do to a person: make you forgive people who have been mean to you.

The heart is a foreign country whose language none of us is good at.

It is foolish for Rubens to show her simpering. They were clearly guilty and did her much sorrow.

Angered by the taunts of the black soldiers and especially by the Union refusal to surrender, necessitating the paying of more precious Confederate lives for this victory he had to have, he may have ragingly ordered a massacre and even intended to carry it out—until he rode inside the fort and viewed the horrifying result. Then,

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

It all ends in tears anyway.

But the children are not fine. They will never be.

You don't carry it around with you like a sackful of cinders.

Life at best is bittersweet.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.

Things are wrong and people misbehave, causing our hatred and suffering to arise. But however painful our experiences may be, they are just painful experiences until we add the response of aversion or hatred. Only then does suffering arise. If we react with hatred and aversion, these qualities become habitual. Like a distorted autoimmune response, our misguided reaction of hatred does not protect us; rather, it becomes the cause of our continued unhappiness.

When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that he or she is a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.

The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is simply to release any images and emotions.

The root of the problem is that everyone has to first discover the root of anger and hatred inside themselves before they can understand how it operates in the outside world.

For instance, the near enemy of love is attachment. It masquerades as love, it feels like love, but it is essentially different.