Quotes About Emotions

You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.

The silence isn't so bad, till I look at my hands and feel sad. Because the spaces between my fingers are right where yours fit perfectly.

Mind you, no one who lives in the real world spends the whole time going around saying, 'Oh yes,darling, I understand, let's talk about our "feelings", lah-dee-f**king-dah.' People who say they've never had a cross word are living on another f**king planet.

Y'know, swearing is just part of who we are – we're forever effing and blinding.

I was a free man, and I'd survived prison without being arse raped or beaten to a pulp. So how come I felt so f**king sad?

If I had stayed in the community I would not be starving. it's as simple as that. . . . but if I'd stayed ... I would have starved in other ways. I would have lived a life hungry for feelings . . . for love.

Love your enemies. It makes them so damned mad.

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

His was a life which lacked, perhaps, the sublimer emotions which raised Man to the level of the gods, but it was undeniably an extremely happy one. He never experienced the thrill of ambition fulfilled, but, on the other hand, he never knew the agony of ambition frustrated....

Anything that makes your mother cry is fun.

Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you.

Before I could cry or scream I whirled around and stalked to my bedroom,slamming the door behind me. I hope they all drown. "Zoey your mother and I need to speak with you." Great. Clearly they didn't drown.

As your girlfriend, you've just pissed me off. As your High Priestess, you've just insulted me. And as someone with a working brain, you've made me wonder if you've lost every bit of your sense. (Zoey Redbird)

Do you know what it's like to absolutely, positively, and wholeheartedly hate yourself? Let me say something nice (for a change): I hope not.

True happiness isn't enhanced by pleasure or diminished by sadness, but exists in spite of those things.

We all walk around with holes in our hearts. But we still walk around.

THERE IS NO JOY EXCEPT IN HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS' — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (p.16).

Re: Positive reactions to non-positive events] Our feelings are the products of our thoughts. A positive thought produces a feeling of contentment or happiness, a negative one a feeling of sadness or despondency. If we have control over how we feel about it as well. This means, in turn, that we can be the makers of our own happiness ( p.16).

We agreed that many a human life is sacrificed in sudden anger, because one or both the parties carry deadly weapons.

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

The capacity to care is what gives life its most deepest significance.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido. (Love is so short, and forgetting is so long.)