Quotes About Emotions

Psychologists John and Sandra Condry asked subjects to interpret why an infant was crying. If they had been told the baby was a boy, subjects thought he was angry, but if they had been told it was a girl, they thought she was afraid.

You're so real. That's why we love you." ... Her friend's response reflected the reciprocity of showing vulnerability. It is a gift not only to the one who has the meltdown but also to the ones who witness it.

In all my memories, my father is unfailingly cheerful. It's my mother who is often unhappy, whose unhappiness I dread because I absorb it, as if I were a lightning rod grounding her sadness in my chest. When

He stared at Esmelda with a face like glass, nothing hidden. What I saw there wasn't steel or fire or stone. Feelings stirred in me and I had to look away. I knew what I saw because I'd felt them, too — understanding, sadness, compassion...forgiveness.

You're human, and sometimes the vagaries of life are just too delicious to ignore.

We were talking about The Bell Jar, because we were sixteen, and we wanted to be depressed in New York.

This boy who made her feel like she was twenty again. Made her feel ridiculous, yes, idiotic. Made her feel crazy and awkward and wild.

deflating like a stuck balloon. She couldn't help but watch as they looked into

If there was one thing Sam understood, it was guilt. It didn't have to be logical; oftentimes it wasn't. It sawed at your gut relentlessly, tediously, until you wore it like a scar.

So I placed my heart under lock and key To take some time, and take care of me But I turn around and you're standing here

But now I know, while beauty lives So long will live my power to grieve.

Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were joy, sorrow, love or pride, were so deep and sharp that in the end they left you raw, exposed and yes, in pain. The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.

One never really knew what went on inside the hearts of other people, even those hearts you thought you knew as well as your own.

Hey, stronzo, che cazzo fai?" Mario demands.

I don't think it's possible to have a wedding without it being stressful!

no matter how many girls he dated, no matter how many he shared himself with, his feelings for 'her' didn't change

It's better to have loved and lost, than to live with a psycho for the rest of your life

Disappointment is a misplaced hope. But bitterness will kill you.

High-tide grief calls for empathy, not solutions.

It was sad when Sid Vicious died... I was freaked out when Phil Lynott died from Thin Lizzy. I cried. It was too crazy.

I love you, in my mind where my thoughts reside, in my heart where my emotions live, and in my soul where my dreams are born. I love you.

If he didn't love so deeply, he couldn't grieve so deeply. But he's drowning in it.

Faith would get her through when she had to face tomorrow, but her grief needed the tears to fall. There was healing in those tears.

God made the ability to feel pain. He didn't have to, you know. He made the ability to feel pain and He also made it possible to feel joy. Should I hate Him for allowing one and praise Him for allowing the other? God knew what He was doing. I may not always agree, but that is part of what respecting His authority means." She