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Quotes About Emotions

Anger made for hasty decisions and rash words that sometimes were hard to take back.
~ Robert Jordan
As Tam had taught him long ago, he formed a single flame in his mind and fed his fears into it, seeking emptiness, the stillness of the void. The flame seemed to grow until it enveloped everything, until it was too large to contain or imagine any longer. With that it was gone, leaving in its place a sense of peace. At its edges, emotions still flickered, fear and anger like black blotches, but the void held. Thought skimmed across its surface like pebbles across ice.
~ Robert Jordan
but who can know the heart of a man? Not even he himself, I suspect. A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself.
~ Robert Jordan
More than once Nynaeve had been shocked at her own cruelty, even while she was delighted at her inventiveness.
~ Robert Jordan
It should, Daigian said. Eben is dead. Would you want to forget your pain if you lost that hulking giant of yours? Have your feelings for him cutaway like some spoiled chunk of flesh in an otherwise good roast? Nynaeve opened her mouth but stopped. Would she? It wasn't that simple—her feelings for Lan were genuine, and not due to a bond. He was her husband, and she loved him.
~ Robert Jordan
Lews Therin hummed even harder, making Rand wish the man had a face so he could hit him.
~ Robert Jordan
It was beyond unwise to enter battle angry. Anger narrowed the vision and made for foolish choices.
~ Robert Jordan
Mat, a very wise woman once told me that time would heal my wounds, that time smoothed everything over. I didn't believe her. Only
~ Robert Jordan
Why, Perrin, you must know that I love you." She stood there, watching his mouth work, then spoke slowly and carefully. "Like a brother, you great wooden-headed lummox! The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.
~ Robert Jordan
Letting emotions go clouds judgment for a moment, but holding them in clouds it always. Just
~ Robert Jordan
A weeping woman is a bucket with no bottom." Lini had been full of sayings like that.
~ Robert Jordan
Las heridas infligidas al orgullo se recuerdan mucho más tiempo que las del cuerpo.
~ Robert Jordan
No need to shriek like a cat," Nynaeve growled, appearing in the stairwell. She was looking back over her shoulder down the stairs, though. "You hold her tight, you hear me?" she shrieked like a cat.
~ Robert Jordan
Si alguna vez te enamoras de una mujer, Rand, abandónala y deja que encuentre a otro. Será el mejor regalo que puedes hacerle.
~ Robert Jordan
Maldito Rand al'Thor!» Una se enamoraba de un hombre y acababa haciendo la colada, aunque la ropa perteneciera a otro hombre.
~ Robert Jordan
a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.
~ Robert Jordan
He seemed composed now, too much so, a boiling teakettle with the lid strapped down and the spout plugged.
~ Robert Jordan
Women just purely enjoyed planting needles in a man.
~ Robert Jordan
Finally the gleeman seemed to tire of hearing him say "I will do what I must," and stopped coming. It seemed that he did not want to compose his epic unless it could be full of pained emotion. The man looked frustrated when he stalked off for the last time, cloak fluttering furiously behind him.
~ Robert Jordan
She made me like her, and I cannot stop, and I hate her for it!" Said
~ Robert Jordan
Sighing, she sat back down again. "Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.
~ Robert Jordan
sweet screams, pretty screams, singing screams, scream your song, sing your screams. . . .
~ Robert Jordan
I won't shout at you! Nyanaeve shouted.
~ Robert Jordan
The spiritual path has no negative emotions and we are spiritual beings having human experience. The experiences need courage to complete the cleansing process. It defines the design that conforms to the external definitions of what we are.
~ Robert Jordan