Quotes About Emotions

I know what you feel like anyone else. It's people that matter. If not, what are you worrying about. What's Madge got that you can't have for a bob against the railings? You care about someone and they let you down. Where's the difference?

Uno no teme una conversación simplemente por el miedo a que se vuelva intensa. Pero la intensidad puede constituir un poderoso disolvente de superficies protectoras finas y frágiles.

He was not analytical enough yet to have discovered that there are certain loves, and certain phases of love, which bring perfect happiness only in their pauses and intervals, as water grows clear when one's progress has ceased to stir it.

Se preguntó por qué la gente a quien uno tenía un afecto más inocente era la que con tanta frecuencia exigía de uno el más atroz engaño.

Todavía no era lo suficientemente analítico para darse cuenta de que hay ciertos amores, y ciertas fases del amor, que solo producen la felicidad perfecta en sus pausas e intervalos, igual que el agua se vuelve cristalina cuando el avance de uno deja de removerla.

As i was beginning to understand, this kind of love was foreign ground to him. I may add that he never did, as far as I know, accept a suitor.... Sometimes indeed I asked myself whether he lacked the capacity for loving men at all; but I liked him too well to offend him by such a question.

when you feel less superior it seems you feel more lonely.

But sometimes his face would change, as if sorrow touched his shoulder, saying, "Had you forgotten me?

You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to be. We can plan our lives along certain lines. But you know, there's no future in screwing down all the pressure valves and smashing in the gauge. You can do it for a bit and then something goes. Sometimes it gets that the only thing is just to say, 'That's what I'd like to feel twenty-four hours a day; but, the hell with it, this is how I feel now.

In hatred is love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

There wasn't an anhydrous lacrimal gland in the house, writes the author in all seriousness describing a memorial service for a medical school's cadavers.

Liquor for men and tears for women," he would say. "What would we do without them?

The cuckoo shows melancholia, not madness. Like Byron, he goes about wailing his sad lot, and now and then dropping an egg into someone else's nest.

We broke up for the night about eleven. Mrs. Butler had come down for a while, and had even played a little, something of Tschaikovsky's, a singing, plaintive theme that brought sadness back into Margery's face, and made me think, for no reason, of a wet country road and a plodding, back-burdened peasant.

The world's full of people grieving for somebody they cared about. It's sheer sentimentality to worry about the ones we don't.

I like to read because it kills me.

And when you think about it, poets always want us to be moved by something , until in the end, you begin to suspect a poet is someone who is moved by everything , who just stands in front of the world and weeps and laughs and laughs and weeps (the mysteries, said Aristotle, are the saying of many ridiculous and many serious things).

It looks like it's wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver – because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia to try to experience directly. Literature is the greatest reality simulator — a machine that puts you through infinitely more situations than you can ever directly witness.

For years the tears fell without touching the ground. On this night they hit the floor.

It's easy to love! Kattie once said to him. It's the courage to be loved that is so difficult.

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

Because they are more, much of the advice that works for raising other children is ineffective with spirited kids. To ignore your child's tantrums is ridiculous. He can rage for an hour because you opened the door when he was expecting to do it himself.

They are normal children who are more intense, persistent, sensitive, perceptive, and uncomfortable with change than other children.