Quotes About Emotions

when people do not have self-esteem they cannot act, they break down.

Much of the loss of temper that we see in family life and in intimate friendships and courtships stems from simply hearing the wrong things at the wrong times.

Exile from the Loved One; or, Farewell and Return.

I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My oldest friend, who is Czech and a patriot, cannot bear to hear me play them because he says I do it in such a schmalzy way, 'crying into the mouth organ'. I do not think I could have written the book on nationalism which I did write, were I not capable of crying, with the help of a little alcohol, over folk songs, which happen to be my favourite form of music.

Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.

You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.

Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing.

Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.

This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.

If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

I say that is wine, Brett held up her glass. We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.' This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste. Brett's glass was empty.

I don't. I don't want anybody else to touch you. I'm silly. I get furious if they touch you.

Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.

To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it's over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and mean it, that's rare, señor. That's rare and valuable." — Ernest Hemingway, from The Complete Short Stories 

You'll ache. And you're going to love it. It will crush you. And you're still going to love all of it.

My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

We have very primative emotions. It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.

I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.