Quotes About Emotions

He will make any woman happy a little while and then unhappy a long while.

He likes to complain. It feels natural to him. He was unhappy a long time, and complaining makes him feel as if he's warding off greater evil.

There is a bird in my chest with wings too broad with beak that rips me wanting to get out. I have called it an idiot parrot. I have called it a ravening eagle. But it sings. Bird of no name your cries are red and wet on the iron air. I open my mouth to let you out and your shining blinds me.

Hate them more than you hate yourself, and you'll stay free!

We chatted for some moments, and Janet joined us, and it was not until some minutes later that I became aware of someone hating me. It is one of those odd but unmistakable sensations one experiences Sometimes on buses or at private dinners, and I looked across the table to observe a young cleric whom I had never seen before regarding me with honest hostility.

Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.

Avril raised his fine head. 'Yes,' he said. 'My poor Margaret.' His face changed only for an instant. The grief upon it appeared and passed like the shadow of a leaf in the wind, but its intensity was so great that Luke, who was still a young man, was dismayed to learn that it could exist.

If you weren't in love and therefore insane I should punch your head, my boy.

When you go to her house, look round you. You'll find it full of knick-knacks, every single one of which has been treasured by someone.' He blinked and, lowering his head, looked at Picot with wide serious eyes. 'Whenever I see them they look to me like petrified morsels hacked out of living pain,' he said gravely.

Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know, and the devil of it is that it deadens the perceptions.

A smile becomes you or perhaps you become you when you smile.

Oversensitivity is the silent cause of all suffering. —Anonymous

The human psyche is pathetic," I say—I declaim—to my psychopharmacologist. "It's what we have, Miss Jefferson," he replies, "it's what we have.

Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.

Her heart's too hurt...you frightened her. And she's such a straight lady--she sees shame where some of us just see people.

Grief isn't like a map you can follow. It's not a simple route with a destination. Sometimes you loop back and find yourself in the exact same place you left.

It had been so long since I'd written, really written, that I'd forgotten what it felt like--how it changed things, shifted everything. I'd forgotten how writing surprises you--how you sit down feeling one thing and come out feeling another--and that I'd never heard my dad's voice in my head like this before, never known I could feel this close to him again, that this letter from him might ever exist. But here it was.

Clifford, I was just saying how there aren't good words for family, for step-half-siblings? How complex family is," Liliana said in her fragile voice. "That's true," Clifford said. "Complicated. Messy. Endless fun." He smiled slightly and looked around the room with an expression I liked-as if the world was enormously absurd, and he sort of enjoyed it and hated it at the same time.

This was a crush? It felt like gum stuck in my throat. Gum stuck in my heart. Mucking everything up. Crush . It felt crushing. Not in a good way. In an eating-too-much cookie-dough-and-getting-a-stomachache way. Too overwhelming.

If grief had a permanence, then didn't also love?

With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you're in the public eye, it's just amplified, that's all.

so often my own emotions were hidden not only from other people but from myself. or perhaps it was the other way round: i was hiding from them.

you can molest someone without touching them, without even saying anything. Just the inappropriate desire can be harmful.

Gezichten kennen vele mimieken, die allemaal wel iets weergeven van wat daarachter leeft, maar het evengoed kunnen vertekenen.