Quotes About Emotions

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

you lose your temper in front of people you do not know, you lose their respect and it is almost impossible to win it back. You must keep control—if you cannot control yourself, then you have no chance of controlling others.

Love had to be deeper than that, than a glance over tea, which was indicative but not dispositive.

He was right: not about her playing him, or about her laughing at him, but certainly about her carelessness, about her casual disregard for how he would feel if he found out, and about the stunning lack of depth it exposed in her character.

She'd spent enough time trying to read the tea leaves of his heart.

I risked my heart on you and lost. Can you honestly say you did the same?

They lay there for a few seconds, in the dark, in the future, listening to the fabulous clockwork of their hearts and lungs, and loving each other

As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.

What it must feel like to lie back with cut wrists in a warm bath, a voluptuous dwindling feeling.

Whenever I'm having a bad day and have an attitude, I stay home. I keep it at home.

It's okay not to be okay.

What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?

it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.

Mary Tryphena said, It's the only thing the world gives us, you know. The right to say yes or no to love.

Pleasure and shame. Shame and pleasure. These were the world's currencies. And it paid out both in equal measure.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

Human relationships were so complicated and always veering in the direction of the irrational.

I am not afraid of being unloved. But I am terrified of never learning to love. There,

Emotions, he was certain, were unreliable and irrelevant to the labor of religious faith.

Joy and sorrow—and especially the areas of your life where there is weakness?

One of the things that haunts me as an artist is the way we project so much onto the world. I'm down on my luck, and the world looks a wretched place. I'm feeling prosperous, so I think the whole international scene is too. I'm unhappy, so I look around and all I see is unhappiness. I buy a certain brand of car, and suddenly I notice them everywhere. Or I'm in love and all I see is love, the whole world in love.

We grow angry at our suffering; we resent and complain and make others pay for our unhappiness.

Surely you must know that the most powerful graces cannot be felt in the senses or the affections.

Ne možemo jednostavno iz sje?anja izbrisati svoje osje?aje i duhovne rane - to se ljudskim snagama jedostavno ne može - iako se možemo disciplinirati i nepostupati u skladu s njima.