Quotes About Emotions

I drank a bottle of wine for company.

I hate him, too," she shivered. "I hate his damned suffering.

He was sentimental, and, like most sentimental people, he was both cruel and abused.

No matter what you do, no matter how hard you work, how much you love, they catch you off guard one day and break you.

In a person's lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in his heart.

The thoughts, words, and emotions that human beings emit from moment to moment are constantly streaming forth from their bodies, forming creative fields that are visible in various colors, forms, and shapes. Some of these creative fields are hazy and cloudy in appearance, and they hover around the person in indeterminate patterns. Others are extremely tenacious, and they twine tightly around the person like a resilient string.

God is not a drug, and He certainly does not create experiences and emotions that make us feel better but not become better.

To live a life of love is to know betrayal and loss.

Love is not about how many people we have used, but about how much we have cherished one person.

To give up on love is to choose a life that is less than human.

fear has a direct object, anxiety is fear without an object. We experience anxiety when we feel overwhelmed by life. In order to reduce our anxiety, we often create smaller and smaller boundaries to give us some sense of control over our lives.

For the rest of the day I was glad I listened instead of yelled, but I still burned with shame at the thought of what I almost said and at all the occasions I have spoken harshly.

El deseo de provocar en el amado un dolor similar al sufrido o de anunciar públicamente su vínculo, tras una vida de secreto, refuerza el carácter narcisista e infantil del amor sentido.

És fàcil, per al qui es troba lliure de penes, donar consell i fer avertiments als qui pateixen.

Én meg szavakkal szeretném elmondani azt, amit szavakkal nehéz.

Until now monogamy has been the default setting, and it sits on the premise (however unrealistic) that if you truly love, you should no longer be attracted to others.

When marriage was an economic arrangement, infidelity threatened our economic security; today marriage is a romantic arrangement and infidelity threatens our emotional security.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. —Anaïs Nin

Is jealousy an expression of love or a sign of insecurity?

However authentic the feelings of love, the dalliance was only ever meant to be a beautiful fiction.

Adultery is often the revenge of the deserted possibilities.

When you love someone, how does it feel? And when you desire someone, how is it different? Does good intimacy always lead to good sex?

My husband deals with pain; I deal with pleasure. They are intimately acquainted.

When I ask her if her open marriage isn't painful, she answers, "Sometimes it is. Sometimes it's not. But monogamy—which we never negotiated, by the way—was painful, too.