Quotes About Emotions

Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.

A broken heart isn't so much the loss of the person as it is the loss of your dreams with that person.

wanted to tell him I understood. But the truth was, no one can really understand what another person is going through.

I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time.

One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.

My concern always has been with how—not why—people make transitions out of relationships. Many times the people I talked to did not understand why themselves. Even when they thought they knew, the reasons changed, so that what seemed to explain it at one time often did not seem important six months later.

for no matter whether the relationship was of short or long duration, no matter whether the partners were rich or poor, gay or straight, young or old, living together or married, giving up the relationship was hard for both people.

I have to put the worst of her into her.

With good reason, love's messengers, Eros and Kama, are armed with bows and long-distance arrows. No being, god or mortal, can choose love. Love comes despite ourselves; and then, if we have not already done so, we have the task of becoming our selves so we may welcome love.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL. Earl

He has to keep his emotions grazing in the back pasture." Senator Elliott

She learned a long time ago people were driven by what they thought about the most. Whatever surfaced each morning when they opened their eyes ruled their hearts. Good. Evil. Love. Hate. Benevolence. Sex. Greed.   

Grief was a vicious parasite. It had dug and clawed its way into my heart, feeding off the guilt raging through me. But I'd find a way to exterminate it.

Was it possible to be numb with love while the world exploded in chaos?

Chasing down international killers without a firearm is easier than facing my feelings for you.

A woman who 'acts like a man' - who is bold and assertive, and refuses to defer to male authority - is threatening to a system that makes women responsible for men's feelings.

Contrary to popular evangelical belief, feeling anger is not a sin—you're allowed to feel angry. You should feel angry. Being outraged at mistreatment is normal and even good. How

I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.

Infinite sadness is not to trust an old friend.

I certainly didn't feel like writing anymore. I couldn't explain why, but the only emotion that I could arouse were feelings of anger and after staying mad all day and half the night, I was just plain tired. Mad at what? Just about everything, for just about everything was done wrong or it wasn't done perfectly. Since nothing but perfection was acceptable, I stayed mad.

British antiaircraft units stationed at the field, and that was the first time I'd ever seen any real emotion from a limey. They actually had tears in their eyes. You could see that they felt like hell standing there watching us go into battle even though

El animal olía a cieno, a mucus, a hojas en descomposición, a algas machacadas, a madera mohosa, a tierra húmeda, el mismo olor sordo, inferior, un poco grasiento, que traía Katsuro cuando volvía del río; y, bajo los pechos de Miyuki, el corazón de la carpa latía con el mismo compás tranquilo, muy majestuoso sin lugar a dudas, que el de Katsuro algunas mañanas, inmediatamente después de haberse acostado con su mujer:

finalmente mi madre volvió a mudarse con ella: en efecto, cuando cumplió dieciocho años intentó volver a casa de su madre. Quien la acogió. Quien "volvió a aceptarla", según decía. Mi madre le perdonó todo. Estaba feliz de haber vuelto a formar parte de la familia. Pero nunca olvidó el desapego que su madre había demostrado hacia ella y que la angustia causada por la guerra no alcanzaba a justificar.

Comment pourrait-on faire sentir l'intensité de cette honte à ceux qui ne l'ont jamais vécue ? Et la force des motivations engendrées par la volonté d'en sortir ? (p. 47)