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Quotes About Emotions

He knew at the same time that this stricture of acceptance (by which what we must love is made into what we can love) would eventually be a part of himself
~ Djuna Barnes
Since her emotional reactions were without distinction, she had to fall back on the emotions of the past, great loves already lived and related, and over those she seemed to suffer and grow glad.
~ Djuna Barnes
The doctor looked at her. "For the lover, it is the night into which his beloved goes," he said, "that destroys his heart; he wakes her suddenly, only to look the hyena in the face that is her smile, as she leaves that company.
~ Djuna Barnes
I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.
~ Djuna Barnes
Oh," he cried. "A broken heart have you! I have falling arches, flying dandruff, a floating kidney, shattered nerves and a broken heart!
~ Djuna Barnes
A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.
~ Djuna Barnes
When I hear about someone else's pain, I feel pain too. i feel pain for everything - for people and animals.
~ Dmitri Shostakovich
I had to write a requiem for all those who died, who had suffered. (...) But how could I do it? I was constantly under suspicion then, and critics counted what percentage of my symphonies was in a major key and what percentage in a minor key. That oppressed me, it deprived me of the will to compose.
~ Dmitri Shostakovich
Of course they understood, they understood what was happening around them and they understood what the Fifth [Symphony] was about.
~ Dmitri Shostakovich
So many unsaid things collect in the soul, so much exhaustion and irritation lie as a heavy burden on the psyche. And you must, you must unburden your spiritual world or risk a collapse. Sometimes you feel like screaming, but you control yourself and just babble some nonsense.
~ Dmitri Shostakovich
Izgleda da su ve?ne samo one ljubavi koje se ne doga?aju.
~ Dobrica ?osi?
If you don't manage your emotions, then your emotions will manage you.
~ Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman
When you really want change, reinforcement will come from your heart.
~ Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman
I couldn't stand to be alone, yet I didn't want anyone to witness my dailiness, an indiscriminate collage of fragments, random encounters.
~ Dodie Bellamy
Don't have much else to say, my brain is about having brain scum all over you, much as I did, because it kept acting up.
~ Dodie Bellamy
Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
~ Dodie Smith
Get angry, get furious but never crumble to resentment.
~ Dodinsky
I still close my eyes and go home . . . I can always draw from that.
~ Dolly Parton
I think every entertainer's had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can't remember everything all the time, and especially if you're having hard times personally, things going on that you - you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.
~ Dolly Parton
I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.
~ Dolly Parton
I think of country radio like a great lover: you were nice to me, you gave me a lot of cool stuff, and then you dumped my ass for another woman.
~ Dolly Parton
I've often said I don't lose my temper as much as use it. I don't do either unless I have to because I love peace and harmony, but when you step in my territory, I will call you on it.
~ Dolly Parton
I strengthen the muscles around my heart, but I can't harden it.
~ Dolly Parton
I just like horny songs.
~ Dolly Parton