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Quotes About Emotions

It is a bittersweet joy, but real nonetheless—the way our lost loves are forever in our hearts and minds. They are, in fact, constant to our consciousness in a way they couldn't be when they were alive, because then we depended on their comings and goings—the highs and lows of their being with us, the vagaries of presence and convenience. But
~ Unknown
It's so easy to go from love to hate. But from hate back to love, that's the hard part.
~ Martha Williamson
People so rarely talked about themselves accurately. They either made too much or too little out of everything. It seemed to Rose that you got to know people much more thoroughly by hearing what they thought and what they did, and then extrapolating the rest as a kind of interesting, intellectual puzzle. All you had to do was listen to the vehemence and passion with which a person talked about things other than himself or herself, and there the person was.
~ Unknown
Feelings are everywhere—be gentle. —J. Masai
~ Unknown
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
~ Martial
Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that ... Swing low in your weep ship, with your tear scans and your sob probes, and you would mark them. Women--and they can be wives, lovers, gaunt muses, fat nurses, obsessions, devourers, exes, nemeses--will wake and turn to these man and ask, with female need-to-know, "What is it?" And the men say, "Nothing. No it isn't anything really. Just sad dreams."
~ Martin Amis
Love might have expanded her. But we are not all of us going to get loved. We are not all of us going to get expanded.
~ Martin Amis
I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by the most perfunctory, meretricious or even callously sentimental attempts at poignancy (something about the exterior of the human face, so vast and palpable, with the eyes and the lips: it is all writ too large for me, too immediate for me.)
~ Martin Amis
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
~ Martin Buber
Feelings are 'entertained'; love comes to pass. Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love.
~ Martin Buber
Feelings one "has"; love occurs. Feelings dwell in man, but man dwells in his love.
~ Martin Buber
Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love. That is no metaphor, but the actual truth. Love does not cling to the I in such a way as to have the Thou only for its " content," its object; but love is between I and Thou. The man who does not know this, with his very being know this, does not know love; even though he ascribes to it the feelings he lives through, experiences, enjoys, and expresses.
~ Martin Buber
Well, love was no fading violet; love was a weed that flourished in the dark. Has anyone ever explained it?
~ Martin Cruz Smith
He never had been good at arguing with women; they tapped into pools of resentment over slights that had steeped for years.
~ Martin Cruz Smith
Upon my word, Watson!" said Holmes at last with an unsteady voice, "I owe you both my thanks and an apology. It was an unjustifiable experiment even for one's self, and doubly so for a friend. I am really very sorry." "You know," I answered with some emotion, for I had never seen so much of Holmes's heart before, "that it is my greatest joy and privilege to help you.
~ Unknown
the picture in order to move us must never merely remind us of life, but must acquire a life of its own, precisely in order to reflect life'.
~ Martin Gayford
In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.
~ Martin H. Fischer
Disease is somatic; the suffering from it, psychic.
~ Martin H. Fischer
It's so nice to be around a man who isn't hung up about his car," she said. "Mom, I can't believe you're saying that. You treat that Coupe Deville like it's a member of the family." "But I'm a woman, darling. I'm supposed to feel that way about my Deville.
~ Unknown
This is not a contest with your child. The winner is not the one with more points. The winner is the one whose child still loves them when they graduate from high school.
~ Unknown
La palabra «nostalgia» viene de la palabra compuesta griega nosto, que significa «ir a casa», y algos, que significa «dolor».
~ Martin Lindstrom
When we read a book, these specialized cells respond as if we are actually doing what the book character is doing."5
~ Martin Lindstrom
With 70 percent accuracy, my source tells me, software can assess how people feel based on the way they type, and the number of typos they make. With 79 percent precision, software can determine a user's credit rating based on the degree to which they write in ALL CAPS.
~ Martin Lindstrom
Cuanto mayor sea el grado de estrés, más temerosos, inseguros e inciertos nos sentimos y más irracional tiende a ser nuestro comportamiento.
~ Martin Lindstrom