Quotes About Emotions

Everyone knows what falling in love is like but being in love is what people have lost. That intimacy to be in bed with somebody and just laugh and not hold anybody accountable for what they say.

blushing propensity should correlate with measures of people's interpersonal concerns.

Moreover, most mass movements are angry and gloomy movements, hostile toward well-adjusted, happy, and successful individuals. Again, this is evident

Frustration is a poignant reminder of ongoing vitality. Enjoy it while you can't.

Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive. C. S. LEWIS A

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW If

You've got sadness in you, I've got sadness in me – and my works of art are places where the two sadnesses can meet, and therefore both of us need to feel less sad.

What is best about our lives -the moments when we are, as we would put it, at our happiest- is both pleasant and deeply unpleasant. Happiness is not a feeling; it is a way of being. If we focus on the feelings, we will miss the point.

The function of religion is to make us feel better, by peddling a lie. The function of philosophy, and a carefully chosen birthday card, is to make us feel worse, by telling the truth. And the truth is of course: we get worse.

It is consciousness that brings both suffering and enjoyment to the world.

I don't care about the rules of grammar so long as my characters' words sound true to life and bite heavily.

A good novel takes the reader into the heart of another person. It lands you smack into the life and times of someone else.

Writing novels is really all about making people think, and even more, making them feel things.

If your writing is brutally honest, comes from the heart, beware, it will take its emotional toll. But, it's worth it.

Harness your dragons. Turn them into stories.

A good novel appeals to emotions, not intellect. It makes you feel things deeply, and then you think about them.

Angst is the intellectual observation that fairy tales aren't true—that there is an unhappy end to every happy beginning. Angst

Psychoanalysts learn a great deal about patients by listening to their humor. And you can learn a great deal about your own psychological makeup by constantly asking yourself (and answering truthfully), Why did I laugh at this joke and not at others?

Whereas incongruity is the clash of incompatible ideas or perceptions, ambivalence is the simultaneous presence of conflicting emotions, such

The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.

Time slips by; our sorrows do not turn into poems, And what is invisible stays that way.

how can you survive what life throws at you if you cannot laugh and love, and are they not the same thing?

All great things come from love, don't they?" "I guess they do," Anna said, and looked away. "The worst things, too.

If we lose love, all is lost.