Quotes About Emotions

To-day my skies are bare and ashen, And bend on me without a beam. Since love is held the master-passion, Its loss must be the pain supreme

That is Veronika Selig. A year ago she went with Roman Maria, into life. She stayed there a long time — in between, her eyes became darker. But now she is here, again. —

Lately she'd been charting Bobby's moods like a meteorologist watching tropical storms. Something was bothering him, and he wasn't talking.

Sure. I've been involved with a couple women who should have been committed.

Esta tarde ví llover, Vi gente correr, y no estabas tu.

what brings you happiness?" "Mr. Cohen . . ." "Benny." "Benny, I don't really think much about it. I just go about my life day to day. Stuff happens. Some good. Some bad. I don't know what's at the end of the rainbow, or even if there is a rainbow.

Four Horsemen: Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, and Stonewalling.

When the woman you love is angry, it's best to give her space, time, and copious quantities of wine.

Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad, I like to keep poking around in it. I like to get into the middle of a relationship, to explore the subtle places.

Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.

Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.

For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.

Music is like a psychiatrist. You can tell your guitar things that you can't tell people. And it will answer you with things people can't tell you.

If we learned to drive as badly as we learn to make love, the roads would be nothing but wrecks. The erotic can be a window into the deepest core of feeling, but more and more doesn't get you there.

How do you think poetry helps people? he'd ask, wanting the whole thing quantified so he could compare it to digging wells in the Peace Corps.

We are creatures of the cruelties we witness.

The problem with secret crushes: in the absence of requital the love turns bitter.

Tears are part of the leeway of the common areas of a hospital, since so many have to do their crying away from the patient's bed. You don't care who sees you cry in the lobby: it was port of entry for all the sorrows, and one gave up all one's previous citizenship at the border.

It was the first time I'd ever considered that gay might not just be about whom we slept with but a kind of sensibility, what survived of feeling after all the fears and evasions of the closet.

The nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.

Without emotional independence, I can't have emotional sobriety.

If I give away my emotional independence and allow any other person to control my emotions, then they control not only my emotional sobriety but possibly also my physical sobriety.

I agree with everything he said about emotional independence which he listed as his most important item.

most people looking for help with relationship problems react all day to the actions of other people and thereby generate their own negative reactions to people. This, he insists, is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed.