Quotes About Emotions

Sometimes remembering means to live a moment in the past again, and in that way survive the present.

If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.

the human heart is allus the same. Sorrer strikes the same all over. Hit makes a different kind o' mark in different places.

Now loneliness washed intolerably over her, as though she were drowning in a cold black pond.

Bai Shen did not move. He gazed down at Miri, and she could still see the fear, but this time it was mixed with guilt and deep raging sorrow that she could only guess had less to do with her, and everything to do with setting one's heart on a plan that had proven itself to be The Dumbest Move Alive.

I'd never indulged in feelings of loneliness. Too dangerous. I'd learned that after my mother's murder. Loneliness could swallow you up, like a disease. Make you vulnerable to anything, even a smile. But then I'd stopped being lonely. And what was more dangerous? Loneliness? Or having friends and family who could be taken from you? "Grant

I should have known this would happen. But I got happy, and soft. I forgot that secrets never keep.

Tolstoy will live forever. Some people do. But that's not enough. It's not the length of life that matters--just the depth of it. The chances we take. The paths we choose. How we go on after our hearts break. Hearts always break. And so we bend with our hearts. And we sway. But in the end--what matters is that we loved and lived

Maxine," Grant said, but I barely heard him. I was lost in that vision, in those emotions—the pain, and hunger for pain, forming the root of so much agonized rage. " 'Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate,'" I muttered. "Yoda, from Star Wars?" " 'Hate leads to suffering.'" I met his gaze. "Yoda knows his shit, man." Grant's mouth crooked in a gentle smile.

Come on. Let's go and sit down. I need to have a beer and a nervous breakdown." "Talk first, then breakdown. I want answers, not drool." "You used to love my drool." "Ha. You funny.

The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.

Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.

Elder Neal A. Maxwell once said, "We are here in mortality, and the only way to go is through; there isn't any around!" I would add, the only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.

A mystery. Love strikes where it will, not where you will it.

Flint", said Tanis gravely."I know you'll be terribly disappointed. But you've only got a cold. You're not dying.

If your deepest feelings are reserved for something other than Almighty God, then that something other is an emotional idol... if you get more excited about material things than the simple yet profound fact that your sin was nailed to the cross by the sinless Son of God, then you're bowing down to Tammuz.

If you want to discover your God-ordained passions, then you need to identify what makes you sad, mad, or glad.

The emotions we experience don't reflect our external reality; they reflect our internal reality.

He loved the rain and the raw energy of crashing storms. I'm going to die in the rain. Too much has happened to me in the rain. I'm going to die in the rain.

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.' ROBERT WILSON LYND

Grief was as individual as a fingerprint.

He sheathed the sword and hung it back on the wall. "I expect he is dead now." He returned to his bunk. "I have learned that holding on to anger is like eating poison in the absurd expectation that your enemy will vomit blood. Anger destroys you—no other. You must not let that happen.

Love, love, love.you have to ove, and if you don't get love right, you have to move on and forgive.

I know from experience that you spend your tears on the big hurts, not the little day-to-day jabs." -Star