Quotes About Emotions

Huh. Veronica Mars, speechless. I'll have to write this one in my feelings journal.

The hazard of living in a place where you had so much history--so much pain and so much rage and so much love--was that every item could turn on you in a flash.

Memories - you can't escape them, but you can't let them rule you either.

But hoping you never saw someone again is a damn sight different from wishing them dead.

Told me that when you bury emotions like that, you're only pissing them off ... making them stronger, because you're burying them alive. They don't like that, and one day they'll make sure that you don't like it either.

wasn't saying he smelled like homemade cookies or baking bread. I hadn't had that kind of home—probably no one outside a Disney movie had.

Van Morrison's Astral Weeks

Ashley Hutchings has been beating the bounds of English traditional music ever since. When he first heard Shirley and Dolly Collins's Anthems in Eden, just after quitting Fairport back in 1969, he broke down in body-shaking sobs; the suite finally unlocked and articulated all that he loved about English music. 'It evokes the countryside and it evokes the healing … I imagine it defined the whole of the rest of my career.

Sometimes I feel like I'm sailing on a sunken dream

Everybody saw them, and anger and revenge mounted all day long as people filed past or remained

Later, Elizabeth revealed to me (and several of her friends) how much safer she felt when I had my feelings. She was able to hear that I was upset about the car but that I didn't think she was bad, and I wasn't going to abandon her. The fact that I had such intensity about not letting her push me away actually made her feel secure and loved. As a result, she felt safe to stay connected to me and hear my feelings about the car.

Life isn't a merry-go-round, it's a roller coaster.

Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.

My cat speaks sign language with her tail.

Those who deem this either weak of me or incredible are invited to find themselves in a like situation.

find the right words for your troubles, and your troubles become half-joys.

Things only exist as long as you see them. And we are all of us nothing but the sum of our moods.

Dr. Freud established that only a small part, perhaps one-tenth, of the human mental and emotional organization is conscious. Our main response to this discovery has been to reject the nine-tenths unconscious more completely and more systematically than ever before. The ghost story makes contact with the submerged nine-tenths.

Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.

The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.

under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.