Quotes About Emotions

HOW CHEQUERED IS HUMAN LIFE! HOW PRECARIOUS IS HAPPINESS! HOW EASILY DO WE OFTEN PART WITH IT FOR A SHADOW! THESE ARE THE REFLECTIONS THAT FREQUENTLY INTRUDE THEMSELVES UPON ME, WITH A PAINFUL APPLICATION. I AM GOING TO DO MY DUTY. –LETTER FROM COLONEL ALEXANDER HAMILTON TO HIS WIFE, ELIZABETH

I avoid the drama of the girls still neck-deep in the snow, running away from the pain as fast as they can. I hope they figure it out.

the necessary, impossible goodbye that had suddenly, in slow motion, arrived

The fight simmers gently on the back of the stove all afternoon, the bubbles rising up and popping, ingredients falling to the bottom, then surfacing again. It doesn't boil over until the sun sets.

When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out.

The whole point of not talking about it, of silencing the memory, is to make it go away. It won't.

I try not to dwell on this.

Oh, wait a minute—when have I seen this before? Got another girlfriend, Daddy? Ready for round two in divorce court? Don't forget to line up a good shrink for Emma; she thinks you're a god.

I wasn't going to let her sucker me into being her friend again just so she could turn around and crush me one more time.

Dr. StupidParker says that when I'm sad it really means I'm angry and when I'm angry it really means I'm afraid.

Look in a mirror and find a ghost. Hear every heartbeat scream that everysinglething is wrong with you.

There were times when, in her fury, she was convinced that she needed to drive down to Phoenix and let him know just how much of a bastard she thought he was, that he needed to know just what he had done. But she eventually realized that with his resounding, silent indifference, nothing she could possibly say would matter to him, and by the same account, he didn't deserve to understand how angry he had made her. He wasn't good enough to know how much she hated him.

A quick mind is worthless unless you can control the emotions with it as well.

That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.

If Mrs. Elliott chose to work off her upset by indulging in an orgy of baking, it was fine with me.

I need no distraction, Russell," he said curtly. "I believe I have already told you that a mind which cannot control its body's emotional reactions is no mind worth having.

When we get out of here," I said, "I know you're angry, but don't kill him. You can hurt him, though. Hurting is fine.

Life, I'd heard someone say, is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. It seemed to me that it was both at once, even for those of us who don't do much of either.

Your unconscious mind takes the things you can't handle and plays with them while you sleep until some of the sharp corners are worn off.

He was always inclined to be a moody man, very exuberant when things were going right, very depressed when they weren't.

No, liebchen, not if it's too painful for you to talk about it." "Devious sheenie bastard." "Devious, yes. Sheenie, yes. Bastard, no. What did you used to do in bed?

There was a click and the line was dead. Johnny

Women (don't) follow logic's rules when they (commit) adultery.

Seeking love from another person is the biggest waste of your time.