Quotes About Emotions

Trauma often robs a person of the surrounding memories—which is inconvenient, but merciful

Intrusive thoughts are my nemesis, cutting through my joy

Part of what we are is whom we've loved.

Love and hell are alike in that respect; they are what you bring to them. The script is yours; only the props are furnished.

Perhaps a moment comes when must is to tired to fight and want breaks free to cry I am just once before the sun goes down.

When we allow emotions to trump the intellect, we swallow "facts" that are demonstrably untrue, letting them fly around unchallenged in a mockery of civic discourse, supporting public figures who promote fictions to further their own cause.

Depression is the ultimate state of disconnection, not just between people but between one's mind and one's feelings.

I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

Make no mistake about it: emotional intimacy in marriage is one of the single most important wellsprings of happiness a couple can ever find.

Love has triumphed over marriage but now it is destroying it from inside

Em definitivo, nós somos tão donos do clima como de nós mesmos e deciframos o céu com a mesma perplexidade que os movimentos do nosso coração. Quanto à analogia feita entre a atmosfera e o humor, ela não é segura: um sol esplendoroso pode-nos ferir com a sua exuberância, a neve e o nevoeiro podem-nos mergulhar num júbilo perene.

A infelicidade não é só a infelicidade: é, ainda pior, o fracasso da felicidade.

C'est étrange, se disait-il, que l'on aime les gens, qu'ils disparaissent, et que l'on continue à les aimer, mais dans sa tête, pour soi, sans le leur dire. Comme si le fait de ne plus être en contact n'enlevait rien à leur présence.

Il dit en soufflant : "Je pense que toute ma vie j'ai été jaloux. La jalousie précède l'imagination. La jalousie, c'est la vision plus forte que la vue.

Na cólera, os nossos ouvidos deixam de ouvir.

J'ai le regret de votre mère. Chacun des souvenirs que j'ai gardés de mon épouse est un morceau de joie que je ne retrouverai jamais.

Ce sont tous les plaisirs du monde qui se retirent en nous disant adieu.

Por lo menos no supe encontrar otra cosa que me consolase tanto del pequeño exceso de soledad que se había refugiado en mí.

Paul, ¿te acuerdas de que cuando estabas tan mal, antes de que comenzases el psicoanálisis, decías que quienes no plantan cara a su dolor se condenan a padecerlo sin fin?

Solo l'amare, solo il conoscere conta, non l'aver amato, non l'aver conosciuto. Dà angoscia il vivere di un consumato amore. L'anima non cresce più.

he's beginning to understand that grief doesn't strike bargains. There's no way of avoiding the agony—or even of getting through it faster. It's got him in its claws and it won't let go till he's learnt every lesson it has to teach.

O casamento é ou pode ser maravilhoso... isto é, quando duas pessoas se amam. Mas às vezes é difícil saber como falar de amor. - Sim, é muito difícil falar de amor. - De vez em quando, porém, é necessário falar. Todo o futuro de uma pessoa talvez dependa disto. - Do amor? - Ou de falar de amor.

American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.

I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.