Quotes About Emotions

Chesterton,' he said gently, 'this is the hardest part of all for you. I know exactly what you're going through and it's no triumph for me to be right. I have transported us all away from your world and your Universe and we have landed on a new planet. Accept that because you must. Tears and anger will not take you back to Earth, so learn from this new experience and profit by it.

Poetry is language against which you have no defenses.

What we love in other human beings is the hoped-for satisfaction of our desire, we do not love them for their desire. If what we loved in them was their desire, then we should love them as our self." When

In many ways love has already named us before we can even begin to speak back to it, before we can utter the right words or understand what has happened to us or is continuing to happen to us: an invitation to the most difficult art of all, to love without naming at all.

The room is still quite cold when the list of achievements is read but the atmosphere quickens when you hear what they loved, what they held in their affections…you realize what you learn you have lost [in someone dying] is you've lose what they loved and everything else is like chafe blown away.

Falling in love with a house or a car or a pair of shoes, it was a dead end. You save your love for the things that can love you back.

Antidepressants. The thought of this girl actually being depressed made me want to grab the whole planet and throw it into the sun. Well, more than usual anyway.

My melon soul Crushed by your Gallagher of apathy

My shame circuits burned out from overuse years ago.

At this point, John flung himself to the ground and screamed, "YOU SHOT ME! AAARRRRGHHH!" Not a shot had been fired. I rushed to John's side. "You shot him! He has four kids! Or should I say, four orphans.

Inappropriate laughter is the universal first sign of madness.

kittens will make your sad go away.

NO!" he screamed at it. "No! Don't you see, you dumb son of a bitch? We don't want to kill you! Can you even hear me, you fucking animal? I will put this through your goddamned neck!

Good-bye, Molly," I muttered. "Of all the dogs I've known in my life, I've never seen a better driver.

A wash of alien sensations crashed over him, like being naked at the bottom of a frantic orgy involving everyone in that Star Wars cantina scene.

My melon soul Crushed by your Gallagher of apathy Sledgehammer! Hammerrrrr!

The kittens will make your sad go away." The

mental state

To believe our own feelings and thoughtways must be universally shared by others is the commonest of mistakes,

old houses move in their sleep like the dreaming, remembering limbs of very old people. Boards whisper, steps cry out softly to the whispering remembrance of footfalls long gone to earth. Mantelpieces strain gently in the darkness beneath the ghosts of old Christmas stockings. Joists and beams and rafters hunch lightly like the brittle ribs of old women in their sleep: the heart recalling, the worn carpet slippers whispering down the halls again.

He didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and suddenly wanted to do both.

What's the point of being involved with someone who makes you unhappy.

Quantunque degli esseri umani avessi un terrore mortale, sembravo assolutamente incapace di rinunciare alla loro compagnia. M'ingegnai a mantenere a fior di pelle un sorriso che non abbandonò le mie labbra un instante; fu questo l'accomodamento che offrivo alla gente.

Purchè ne sia capace, è probabile che gli esseri umani non badino troppo se rimango estraneo alle loro vite. L'unica cosa che debbo evitare, è di riuscir molesto ai loro occhi; sarò nulla, sarò vento, il cielo.