Quotes About Emotions

So, I went through the motions and got the photos, like every mom does on special occasions. Just get the damn photo so we can create the memory. Then I can go back to real life. Then I could go back inside and hide.

She gave me a huge smile, and I took it so I could manage to give it back to her.

At the risk of hurting your feelings, I think you should know that some kisses are more special than others.

silent tears fall ruefully at midnight

This book is a memoir - not of specific life events, but of the processes of dissociation, and of re-enlivening emotions that are shameful to admit or even to feel. It is an account of the altered states that trauma induces, which make it possible to survive a life-threatening event but impair the capacity to feel fear, and worse still, impair the ability to love.

After a series of traumas, one can lose the capacity to feel fear appropriately.

Why does the threat of violent death alter some of us, even if subtly, forever? Why does it make us unusually numb or calm when we ought to feel terrified? Why do scents or sounds trigger in some of us a feeling of terror or unbearable dread, even in situations where we know, at least, intellectually, that we are perfectly safe?

Other flowers came at the end of the summer, but by then the winter sadness had already dissipated, and the effect of the blooms was not the same.

there is a distinction between understanding and sympathizing.

The fact of the matter is that when there are feelings involved and you like someone, it doesn't matter if you're an actor, a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer, a receptionist - you can't really help it when you have feelings for someone.

Be as pissed off as you want to be. Don't hold back because you think it's unladylike or some such nonsense. We shouldn't be shamed out of our anger. We should be using it. Using it to make change in our own lives, and using it to make change in the lives around us. (I know, I'm cheesy.) So the next time someone calls you emotional, or asks if you're PMSing, call them on their bullshit.

Robin Simon, a sociology professor at Florida State University and researcher on parenting and happiness, told The Daily Beast in 20083 that parents "experience lower levels of emotional well-being, less frequent positive emotions and more frequent negative emotions than their childless peers.

What is closer to the truth is that when confronted with the love you deserve, it is easier to mock it than accept it.

The question is not why fools fall in love. It is expected of them. When "smart" people fall in love - that's the problem.

Beware of those who have never been bored, depressed, or angry. There is something seriously wrong with them.

I love humanity. It's people I don't like.

Why should I bring happiness to those I loathe by obliterating myself, when I can make them miserable just by existing?

While being madly in love is fun, perhaps one should aspire to be sanely in love.

I cannot write about Venice; I can only write about me, and the sleeping parts of myself that Venice has shocked into wakefulness.

My emotional range is limited. I can't do grief, but rage is my friend. For instance, I hate death by sickness. It is nothing like Homer, the Old Testament, and Tolkien led me to expect. It is not noble and awe-inspiring. No one delivers a final soliloquy. It is as abrupt and banal as the flicking of a switch.

The one thing that worries me is that with my mother gone, the voice in my head that tells me to be nice to others has been silenced forever. I fear for other people.

L'amore non è un sentimento al quale ci si possa abbandonare senza aver raggiunto un alto livello di maturità.

Only in the love of those who do not serve a purpose, love begins to unfold.

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