Quotes About Emotions

He asks me what my favored platforms are. I explain that I don't use any of them because they make me feel too squirrelly. Or not exactly squirrelly, more like a rat who can't stop pushing a lever. Pellet of affection! Pellet of rage! Please, please, my pretty!

Roses are red, Violets are blue, I feel slightly less dread, When I am with you.

What Ann Druyan said: Compressed into a minute-long segment, the brain waves of a woman newly in love sound like a string of firecrackers exploding.

In those last weeks, we drove without talking, trying to outride the heat, each alone in the dream the city had become. I was afraid to speak, to touch his arm even.

One day in the Little Theater of Hurt Feelings the husband announces that he would like to try a separation. The wife is stunned. He has said nothing to her until now. But the shrink discourages it. "You might as well just get divorced," she says.

Before I was born, they had traveled around the world together, and sometimes it seemed that they went away again and forgot me.

If you have not known suffering, love me.

I can't bear it," she says. Margot nods. You can barely bear it, I think reflexively.

Some nights in bed the wife can feel herself floating up towards the ceiling. Help me, she thinks, help me, but he sleeps and sleeps.

If I had to sum up what he did to me, I'd say it was this: he made me sing along to all the bad songs on the radio. Both when he loved me and when he didn't.

And that phrase - 'sleeping like a baby.' Some blonde said it blithely on the subway the other day. I wanted to lie down next to her and scream for five hours in her ear.

Anger looked like fireworks. Love was an indistinct blur.

It's amazing what storms your face can hide, what terrible wrecks can writhe and heave beneath, without one ripple on the surface.

When I'm on my own, I can be negative. I need my friends and family around to help pick me up if I've had a bad qualifying session. I think insecurity plagues a lot of sportspeople.

Wolverine and Spider-Man on depression: --Wanna know why it's called "depression"? Because it IS depressing... A death isn't like losing a job or getting divorced. You don't "get over it." You have to integrate it into your life. Learn to live with it. But... Life does get better. --Someday...? --Best you can hope for. --Someday.

do not let your happiness depend upon the fancies of other men

My name had become a brand. (I have mixed emotions about that part of our (Christian media) industry, for sure.)

How my emotions starred as I played! During one of this tug-of-war contest between knowing right and doing wrong, I wrote the words to a song on my own for the first time.

I am aware, of course, that many men do hate the sight of their wife and children. Doctors even have a name for these people: 'anglers'.

So it is with grief where, if all goes well, can come a strengthening of the inner world, of memory and definition.

I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.

I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.

Loneliness is a hell of a drug. A week prior I'd misted up when a grocery clerk told me, "Take care.

Studies have shown that people with high IQs are more likely to feel anxiety or depression because they see the world how it really is. Stupidity is nature's rose-tinted glasses. For most of my life, genius was tempered by negative emotions.