Quotes About Emotions

Una ola de ira inundo mis calles y mis cielos vacíos. Esa ola que no se ve y que de pronto avanza, derriba puentes, muros, quita vidas y hace generales.

Los hombres no lloran, le repetía su padre. ¿Y por qué los hombres no podían llorar? Alguna vez debía romper las reglas impuestas y con decisión se lanzó sobre su cama y sollozó sobre su almohada de borra.

A face, he believes, is a piece of sculpture that has taken a lifetime to mold, so it tells more than any actor's technique possibly could.

Feeling angry is natural; you have a right to feel angry. Expressing this anger is the most important lesson to be learned. How do you get rid of all the poisonous, furious feelings you have without hurting yourself or others?

The flip side of anger is helplessness. This feeling of helplessness can quickly turn into anger or rage.

The flip side of helplessness is anger.

Anger can be a problem if you find yourself on the receiving end of it. Because you witnessed violent anger, you expect all arguments or expressions of angry feelings to result in violence. This is simply not the case. Many of you grew up without a middle ground for expressing anger - it was either not expressed, or exploded into violence. A middle ground is safe anger expression. (See Chapter VI).

Fear thrives strongest; there is no telling how little we would be without having suffered fear. An intrinsic characteristic of humanity is the tendency to give in to fear. No fear is lost, but its hiding places are a riddle. Perhaps, of all things, fear is the one that changes least.

Ben poco del male che si può dire dell'uomo e dell'umanità io non l'ho detto. E tuttavia l'orgoglio che provo per essa é ancora così grande che solo una cosa io odio veramente: il suo nemico, la morte.

I believe it important to emphasize how strongly I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.

Love makes everything complicated.

Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.

I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.

It is not always events that have touched us personally that affect us the most.

Love that makes everything complicated. While hate simplifies everything. Hatred puts accents on things and beings, and on what separates them. Love erases accents.

I tried to put on a smile but, being too cold, I could only manage a grin. That's one reason why I don't like winter: smiles become abstract.

Every tragedy is unique, just as every human is unique. When a person loses someone dear to her, who am I to say that my tragedy was greater? I have no right. For that person, her tragedy is the greatest in the world—and she is right in thinking so.

books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.

What I think is that every family is happy in their own fashion, and every family is unhappy in their own fashion. Every family is both functional and dysfunctional.

The Republic of Love by Carol Shields

Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin

A little self-hatred keeps a person interesting

Emotions have their effects even after you try to bully them out of existence.

It's weirdly reassuring: when adoration is selfish, it's not going anywhere.