Quotes About Emotions

They were good friends, though they would never understand what lay inside of her, would not understand even if she told them.

Her abstinence from her recollections had been a matter of survival.

Such physical matters were nice, yet, to him, intelligence and passion born of living, the ability to move and be moved by subtleties of the mind and spirit, were what really counted.

Whiteness–the whole constellation of practices, beliefs, attitudes, emotions that are mixed up in being white–is the problem. Whiteness is degraded and depraved[…] To the degree that we accept any of the meaning that the dominant society gives to whiteness, we white people are degraded and depraved.

the difficult question these feminists raised: In women's experience, how much consensual sex is consented to but not wanted? How much consensual sex is consented to out of fear? Out of insecurity? How much consensual sex is consented to simply because the woman finds it easier to have sex than to try to communicate with the man about her emotional state at the moment?

Emotions also can justify acts that would otherwise be reprehensible. We are quicker to except the legitimacy of a violent response to an insult or a wrong if it is believed to have arisen spontaneously from the understandable anger that it triggered than if it is seen as the product of calculation. Revenge may be a dish that is best eaten cold, but serv­ers are more willing to accept it if it is hot.

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.

You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.

My friend," he said, "there is no worse traitor than a small lapdog. The first thing I always do when I am in love with a woman is to give her one of these little dogs. This way, I can always discover whether there is someone more favored than myself. The test is infallible. As you saw just now, the dog wanted to bite me because I am a stranger, but when it saw you, it went mad with joy." Two days after this visit, Poniatowski left Russia.

She had dealt with her pregnancy by wrapping herself in dreams.

I took good care not to tell anybody that I had resolved never to love without restraint a man who would not return this love in full; such was my disposition that my heart would have belonged entirely and without reserve to a husband who loved only me.

You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me when this inclination passes. (Catherine, in a letter to Grigory Potemkin).

more than we understand, most people deal constantly with fear. "I'm not afraid," we know you are saying to yourself right now. "I feel fine." And you are right. You do not feel your fear. The reason you do not is because you are dealing with it. Though you are not aware of it, you have created a very effective anxiety-management system, and that system is what we call the immunity to change.

In recounting his first crime, the serial killer, Ted Bundy, recalled that he felt disgusted with what he had done. Ramirez may have experienced similar emotional turmoil – at first. Then he likely revisited the crime in his mind, reliving the rape and murder over and over again.

No hay nada malo en estar deprimido —dice Pearsall—. La vida y sus transiciones pueden ser tristes. Llorar... no es ser "disfuncional". Es ser humano.»

Someone is going to tell you to get use to this. That feeling of being scared and sad. They're going to say it'll be better when you learn to ignore it. Don't listen to them. Hold on to it, remember it... Don't let yourself forget it. It's too easy to lose. -Carl Grimes

Worriers are most concerned they are not nurturing and caring enough toward other people. They worry about letting other people down, that other people are upset with them, and that other people are unhappy. In fact, worriers tend to be better than nonworriers in anticipating the feelings of other people.8

I'm not okay, you're not okay—but that's okay.

It's the love you had that matters, isn't it, not the pain.

Some people carry their life in a glass of water and splash it on everyone they meet.

He had left home one day, yesterday, and come home today, and the change was too much for him to bear. And this was why he could not go home all at once.

If we didn't have strong feelings, how could we love or fight? When our flesh is cut, we bleed. When our heart is broken, we cry. There's nothing wrong with that. It only becomes a problem when it gets in the way of what you have to do. You can't crumble when others are counting on you.

Xander let the full extent of his misery show on his face for his mother. She gave his knee a shake, sharing his misery. She was good that way. "Give it some time," she whispered. "You'll make new friends and find new things to do. Wait and see.