Quotes About Emotions

Because self-hatred is as galvanizing as ambition.

You ever hear about how when you stab somebody, it's really personal? ~ Chris Carmichael

Counseling that attempts to logically teach new truth without concern for the emotional threat involved in changing one's approach to meeting personal needs will plow headlong into resistance.

Don't lose that anger. Just have a little more patience and forgiveness. For yourself as well.

How needy man is.

You have to remember that I've been lonely for a long time. Loneliness is like ice. After you've been lonely long enough you don't realize you're cold, but you are... I don't know, maybe at the center of me there's some ice that never will melt, maybe it's just been there too long. But you mustn't worry. You didn't put it there.

Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.

I don't know why you would even want to stay with me, I said. T.R. looked stunned for a second and then whipped her elbow into my side as hard as she could--months later it was determined that the jab cracked a rib. Oh, get fucked! she said, jumping up. No wonder you don't have no girlfriend if you don't have no more feelings than to say a horrible thing like that. All I want to do is love you. Ain't you even gonna let me?

Razzy was insulting me silently somehow.

He had known several men who had lost limbs in battle; the men all claimed that they still felt things in the place where the limb had been. It was natural enough, then, that with Bill suddenly gone he and Gus would continue to have some of the feelings that went with friendship, even though the friend was gone.

He was tired of seeing his family only in dreams.

I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad.

I make my share of mistakes, but one I never make is to underestimate the power of things. People imbued from childhood with the myth of the primacy of feeling seldom like to admit they really want things as much as they might want love, but my career has convinced me that plenty of them do. And some want things a lot worse than they want love.

It was as if his whole life had suddenly lodged in his throat, a raw bite he could neither spit out nor swallow.

Of all the women he knew, she had meant the most; and was the one person in his life he felt he had missed, in some ways.

He was annoyed with his mind—it would be a lot easier to do his task well if his mind would just behave and not keep making him scared.

It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It always leads to trouble.

It was often that way with women, it seemed. One minute Lorie would be drilling holes in him with her eyes, and the next minute she and Clarie would be combing one another's hair and singing tunes.

She sighed. Men were a pain.

The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.

It was something, what must go through men's mind where women were concerned, to cause them to behave so strangely.

it seemed he had to be talking every waking minute as a means of holding his own fears in balance.

At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be so painful?

With Call suddenly determined to leave that very day, Augustus found himself regretful, nostalgic already for things he hadn't particularly cared for but hated to think of losing.