Quotes About Emotions

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The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences.

There is so much darkness in Ember, Lina. It's not just outside, it's inside us, too. Everyone has some darkness inside. It's like a hungry creature. It wants and wants and wants with a terrible power. And the more you give it, the bigger and hungrier it gets.

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is.

Now Doon seemed to care for his new friends more than he did for her. Every time she thought about him she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place inside her.

Unintended consequences, he thought miserably. He was angry at his anger, the way it surged up and took over.

Stowne loves you to the point of obsession, just like Dane. They don't want anything to harm you and are willing to lie, even to you, to keep you what they consider safe. Your being here is tearing Stowne up inside, and Dane dreads the idea of of you leaving.

Nicicând pl?cerea nu adusese cuiva at?ta durere.

The sensation that seized me that morning?the twentieth of May?as I sat on my velvet cushion beside the Pope and stared down at the man standing beside my husband, was swift, irrevocable, and violent, like a dagger plunged into the heart. I trembled. I did not want it; I did not seek it; yet there it was, and I was at the mercy of it. And I knew nothing of the man who had just stolen my soul.

To love someone," she said. "I can tell from your face that you love this man, and you loved your husband, too. What is it like?" "It is . . . wonderful," I replied. "It gives me a reason to wake up every morning. When he is happy, I am happy; when he is sad, I want only to cheer him. It is the best thing in life; nothing else comes close to it.

Adoration brings out the worst in some men.

That's the difference between you and them, between any person of integrity and any criminal. You wanted to do harm, but you didn't. The restraints held. That's what civilization is... That's what morality is. Maybe we can't always keep our emotions in check, but so long as we control our actions, we'll stay on the right side of the line.

Love isn't really about what we think of the other person, but how we feel about ourselves when we are with that person.

Living people mess you up. Living people are messy.

Depression isn't a thing that lifts or disappears just because of a change of scenery. The voice follows you no matter where you go, reminding you that you are worthless.

And I don't think anybody ever gets over loss. I think you get through it. You let it get through you.

When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.

If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.

Age doesn't protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

I never knew people could be afraid of good news too. I realized that good news took you places you didn't know anything about. It changed everything as much as bad news.

I said it grieved me to part from anything that mattered to me, yet I welcomed the grief because it meant I had felt deeply and needed to express it. 'I even had trouble leaving the Parthenon,' I told him ... 'because it was so beautiful and I knew I'd never see it again.

The world shrinks to include only two people, only one of whom -- the beloved -- has power. This inequitable distribution naturally breeds resentment and feelings of hopelessness that the dependent person dare not express for fear of alienating the necessary person even more.

Some never escape from the imprisoning conviction that a cold or unattainable lover can be persuaded to become warm or attainable if they only discover the key.

When he described their actual interactions, I got only the most superficial impression of what she was actually like and a great deal of information about how he felt when he was with her – a sure sign of self-absorption masked as love.