Quotes About Emotions

You can't manufacture love: you can't build it back up, like a fire. You start out with a certain amount, and then you hope it is strong enough and lasting enough to sustain itself against the hard winters, and the assaults of time.

I guess nostalgia is our sanctuary in sorry times.

I felt lonely then. This is the time when you need somebody. This is the time when it is good to have a wife, and children, to absorb your grief, to hold on to you. This is when you pay, and pay and pay, for pretending that you don't need anybody.

But I just stood there, trapped somewhere between my long-standing comfortable hatred, and what might have been forgiveness. I am trapped there still.

That night, he just picked, and they let the liquor run through their blood, circle their heart, and soften their heads, like a pillow, without laying down.

She passed November 25, 2002,' he said, pointing to a sepia-toned photo of them taken when they were still young. 'She was a wife to me, boy,' he said, and then he looked around the room, his eyes fierce, as if daring someone to disagree. He is asked if he has anything else to say about baseball, but he is lost now, in a place even the cheers cannot reach, cannot brighten.

Some men were just born beside a river of melancholy. Some men lived a lifetime there.

Would you feel better inside if someone said to you that they really "need" you, or if they said, "I really love you and I want to be with you?

When we are depressed, we have a sense of being deadened and blocked. When we fully experience our sadness, we may not feel on top of the world, but we will feel very much alive and may even have a sense of wellbeing. Most importantly, when we experience our emotions fully, we will eventually move through them to a new feeling space. On the other hand, if we avoid our emotions, we tend to stay stuck in a particular emotional state.

What is so addictive about fiction is that it is the one reliable place in which we can apprehend and participate in - fully understand - the inward world of another person.

The past was so past it hurt.

Tangled in one another's arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them.

Fucking family. Feeble and forlorn and floundering and foolish and frustrating and functional and sad, sad. Fucking family. Fiend or foe.

You could pay Arthur Janov to teach you to scream about history, or you could learn prayer or a mantra, or you could write your life down and hope to make peace with it, write it down, or paint it, or turn it into improvisational theater, but that was the best you could probably do. You were stuck.

The thing you did to alleviate the loneliness was to take off your clothes and touch someone, even if you didn't really know the person well.

Inside Brick Church, Peter held Patricia's little hand while they sang hymns. He thought about the schooner so much that he barely knew what he was singing.

Teddy White lamented that TV might spell the death of serious politics: to give a thoughtful response to serious questions, politician needed a good thirty seconds to ponder, but television allowed only five seconds of silence at best. DDB (ad men) found nothing to lament and the fact. They were convinced you could learn everything you needed to KNOW about a product, which in this case happens to be a human being, in half a minute – the speed not of thought but of emotion.

Almost alone among successful politicians, he took slights personally.

It took me years to learn that happiness is not something one attains, but fleeting, like sunshine. It comes and goes.

What is so broken about me? So unlikable? Why does it still hurt?

Holding on to silent resentment makes you a prisoner in your own mind and emotions.

Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.

Oh, I wouldn't say Love always makes you happy. Sometimes it makes you incredibly sad.

Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.