Quotes About Emotions

I did not say how I was feeling to anyone. To say how I was feeling would lead to feeling more of what I was feeling. To act normal would be to feel a bit more normal. I acted normal.

Fear makes us curious. Sadness makes us philosophize. ("To be or not to be?" is a daily question for many depressives.)

I wanted to be dead. No. That's not quite right. I didn't want to be dead. I just didn't want to be alive.

I felt the beautiful melancholy of being human, captured perfectly in the setting of a sun. Because, as with a sunset, to be human was to be in-between things; a day, bursting with desperate colour as it headed irreversibly towards night

All you can do with the past is carry it around, feeling its weight slowly increase, praying it never crushes you completely

And I felt an incredible excitement at being able to witness the love reemerge inside her, because it was a total, prime-of-life love. The kind that could only be possible in someone who was going to die at some point in the future, and also someone who had lived enough to know that loving and being loved back was a hard thing to get right, but when you managed it, you could see forever.

Nora had also felt that simply to be in his presence was to commit some kind of invisible crime.

Dengarkan baik-baik. Kalau selama ini anda percaya bahwa seseorang yang depresi ingin bahagia, anda salah. Mereka sama sekali tidak peduli betapa menyenangkannya kebahagiaan. Mereka hanya ingin kepedihan mereka lenyap. Mereka ingin menjadi "normal". Atau, karena merasa normal benar-benar mustahil, mereka ingin menjadi "kosong".

Accept. Don't fight things, feel them. Tension is about opposition, relaxation is about letting go.

Nora had always had the sense that she came from a long line of regrets and crushed hopes that seemed to echo in every generation.

Happy moments can turn into pain, given time

She realized it wasn't her fault that her parents had never been able to love her the way parents were meant to: without condition.

can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. Sylvia Plath

Speaking to a human you cared about, I realised, was so fraught with hidden danger that it was a wonder people bothered speaking at all.

A person was like a city.

That feeling you have, that everything is going to get worse, is just a symptom.

We are as completely and utterly alive as we are in any other life and have access to the same emotional spectrum. We only need to be one person. We only need to feel one existence. We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility.

That is what we were like. In a way we argued because we knew it would have no fundamental impact. When you can be yourself around someone, you project your dissatisfied self outward.

Si vous êtes le type de personne qui pense trop aux choses, alors rien n'est plus solitaire au monde que d'être entouré d'un tas de gens qui ne sont pas sur la même longueur d'ondes.

Moments ago she had been in the garden with Ash and Nora and Plato, a garden humming with life and love, and now she was here.

Check your emotional armour is actually protecting you, and not so heavy you can't move.

An annoying thing about depression is that thinking about life is inevitable. Depression makes thinkers out of all of us

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life.

There is no rejection, there is only redirection. You can have everything and feel nothing.