Quotes About Emotions

This was a life where she put four exclamation points in a row. That was probably what happier, less uptight people did.

Is there no way out of the mind?" Sylvia Plath

I mean, it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunise you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can't have one without the other. Of course, they come in different degrees and quantities. But there is no life where you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you're in.

Now, these were wounds I could have healed with a single thought. Just to feel pain, sometimes, was enough to cancel it.

Don't attach yourself to people, and try to feel as little as you possibly can for those you do meet. Because otherwise you will slowly lose your mind

Reading Schopenhauer when you felt melancholy was like taking off your clothes when you felt cold, but a line of his came back to me.

I think intellectualism can be a barrier to reading. The point of a book - song, film, whatever - is to FEEL it. That's why we're here, no?

Depression lies. And while the feelings themselves were real, the things they led me to believe were resolutely not.

And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on. —Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Love is what the humans are all about but they don't understand it. If they understood it, then it would disappear.

This is what happens when you live on Earth. You crack. You hold reality in your hands until it burns and then you have to drop the plate.

It is strange how close the past is, even when you imagine it to be so far away. Strange how it can just jump out of a sentence and hit you.

Back in Mother Ivy's time I would have been obliged to cook you gingerbread and show you my spickle dancing, and yet now I have permission to chop you up into little pieces. I cry myself to sleep every night, and feel dead inside, but society is definitely improving.

No single feeling becomes the only feeling if you let it all happen. And the way to let it all happen is to see the value in it all, in everything. To see the way the dark might lead to the light and the way present pain might lead to future hope.

Every day, not only did he wear his red and white outfit, complete with shiny black belt and boots, but he was determined to be as jolly as could be, because the easiest way to make other people happy was to be happy yourself, or at least to act as if you were. That was how his mother had done it. And even his father too, once upon a time.

Without emotions humans wouldn't care for each other, and if they didn't care for each other, the species would have died out. To care for others is self-preservation. You care for someone and they care for you.

IT'S A WEIRD thing, depression. Even now, writing this with a good distance of fourteen years from my lowest point, I haven't fully escaped.

If the modern world is making us feel bad, then it doesn't matter what else we have going for us, because feeling bad sucks.

We use "depressed" as a synonym for "sad," which is fine, as we use "starving" as a synonym for "hungry," though the difference between depression and sadness is the difference between genuine starvation and feeling a bit peckish.

the thing that had left her vulnerable, really, was the absence of love.

You need to feel life's terror to feel its wonder.

Nora shook her head. Wishing it would fall off. Her own head. Onto the floor.

The weirdest thing about a mind is that you can have the most intense things going on in there but no one else can see them. The world shrugs. Your pupils might dilate. You may sound incoherent. Your skin might shine with sweat. And there was no way anyone seeing me in that villa could have known what I was feeling, no way they could have appreciated the strange hell I was living through, or why death seemed such a phenomenally good idea.

But there is no life where you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you're in.