Quotes About Emotions

I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating.

In Bottletown, even our tears flicker like jewels.

Emotions change like the wind, and you can't stop them. No one can. They keep moving; that's why they're called emotions and not e-standingstills.

When I walk into environments where the walls are clear, or even covered with pleasant artwork — or worst of all, motivational posters — it makes me sad.

When I see a good singer, I get teary-eyed. Part of it is jealousy because all comedians are frustrated rock stars. That's a fact.

Anger is simply momentary madness, and sometimes there is strength in silence. After all, he is only throwing words, not stones.

You must take control of your thoughts and your emotions, or they will control you"' Malao

I cursed. (S-word, f-word, s-word, d-word, s-word times three, f-word, and a z-word I made up on the spot.) I kicked a brick wall. I said the z-word again in response to the pain that came from kicking a brick wall.

What makes you think I'm coping?" "Well, for one thing, you're not lying on the floor in the fetal position. That's a good start.

Sometimes to deal with your problems you have to let off a little steam.

Grandpa Zachary had died.

God, Owen, what have you done?" asked Toby, stepping onto the lawn. "Why do things always get so screwed up with us?" Owen signed: Scared. "Me too.

When I was little, my dad used to say, "Son, guilt doesn't make a very fluffy pillow.

Your ego wants to conceal your insecurity and your fear. And that's why it can be such an unwelcome intrusion when we're trying to create or perform. You need your human frailty to be at least somewhat visible if you want to connect on an emotional level

I became a songwriter not when I composed that perfect couplet, or experienced the right amount of pain. It's when I realized that whatever I wrote, even if it meant gutting myself in front of strangers, letting all those raw emotions come flooding out, making a fool of myself with my own words, was exactly what I always wanted to do with my life.

That's one of the problems with humans—that we can be talked out of loving something. That we can be talked out of loving something that we do, and we can be talked out of loving ourselves. Easily, unfortunately

That's one of the problems with humans—that we can be talked out of loving something. That we can be talked out of loving something that we do, and we can be talked out of loving ourselves.

If a song is memory in some way, let's create a moment that you won't forget. There are lots of ways to do that

Like most men, Wick could not help terror about one thing erupting as anger about something else.

I would never know anyone like Borne ever again, and even if I saw Borne again it would never be the same as when we lived together in the Balcony Cliffs, the way we'd run down the corridors and punched holes in the walls and joked and laughed and I'd taught him new words that he'd held there in his mind like jewels, and repeated over and over until he knew them better than I did.

It's not being hurt that hurts,' Borne said.

Borne made me happy, but happiness never made anyone less stupid

There are certain kinds of deaths that one should not be expected to relive, certain kinds of connections so deep that when they are broken you feel the snap of the link inside you. As

His father could have been less honest, because honesty was often just a way of being cruel.