Quotes About Emotions

In life it was necessary to recognize that no one escaped heartache. It therefore made it even more essential to hold tight and savor every drop of happiness that came your way.

Loneliness is not about how many people you have around. It's about whether or not you feel connected. Whether or not you're able to be yourself.

The lonely feeling comes from not feeling known.

Why is it that an insult stays with you forever, whereas love and praise passes through you like water through a sieve?

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

It was as if a lifetime's worth of emotional chutes and trapdoors installed for self-protection decades ago had malfunctioned in a spectacular way.

Loneliness is not about how many people you have around. It's about whether or not you feel connected. Whether

You have no idea how much you can learn about yourself by plunging into someone else's life," Margot said.

Loneliness is not about how many people you have around. It's bout whether or not you feel connected. Whether or not you're able to be yourself.

and I was a really fat kid, and that's why I do this to myself.

Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.

but from here on I want more crazy mourning, more howl, more keening -from "A Woman Dead in Her Forties

Things take us hard, no question. How do you make it, all the way from here to morning? I touch you, made of such nerve and flare and pride and swallowed tears. Go home. Come to bed. The skies look in at us, stern. And this is an old story.

You grieve in loneliness, and if I understand you fuck in loneliness.

In all societies, women are in double jeopardy; on the one hand we are expected to conform to certain emotional standards in our relationships with others at the penalty of being declared insane; on the other, our political perceptions are labeled "irrational" and "hysterical.

For every bandaged wound I'll scrape another   open

Only to have a grief equal to all these tears! There's not a sob in my chest. Dry hearted Peer Gynt I pare away, no hero, merely a cook.

You are every woman I ever loved and disavowed.

The avoidance of pain - physical or psychic - is a dangerous mechanism, which can cause us to lose touch not just with our painful sensations but with ourselves.

Perhaps many white North Americans fear an overtly political art because it might persuade us emotionally of what we think we are "rationally" against; it might get us on a level we have lost touch with; undermine the safety we have built for oneselves, remind us of what is better left forgotten.

I cannot hide my anger to spare your guilt.

Marriage is lonelier than solitude

I would feel [my son's] wants at such a moment fraudulent, as an attempt moreover to defraud me of living even for fifteen minutes as myself. My anger would rise

As soon as I was visibly and clearly pregnant, I felt, for the first time in my adolescent and adult life, not-guilty.