Quotes About Emotions

Despite its evils, bitterness holds many of us captive. Forgiveness is the only escape route out of this prison.

forgiveness is not a feeling but a secret choice of the heart.

I knew God was displeased by my lack of forgiveness, but it was impossible to forget the words that were cemented in my heart. Betrayal hurts.

When we love, we open ourselves to the possibility of hurt.

Because I found out that a little love is better than no love at all.

I have discovered that love and empathy play side by side with anger, fear, and resentment.

Mommy?" I plead. "Please?" "No," she pouts. "I'm nine!" "Please," I say and start to sob, my chest heaving its burden up and down. "I'm nine!" "Please be thirty-four!

She had told Dr. Orne that Plath "took something that was mine—that death was mine!

Depression is boring, I think, and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave. —ANNE SEXTON, "THE FURY OF RAIN STORMS

tears have a purpose. they are what we carry of the ocean, and perhaps we must become the sea, give ourselves to it, if we are to be transformed.

All the stories live in our bodies, he thinks. Every last one.

Women were always complications, bless their perverse little hearts.

What are you doing?" she cried in protest. "Playing," he said, the single word rough, almost guttural.

Before you know it, you'll be smiling at her across the breakfast table. I don't smile, Cahill said, though he was having to fight his amusement. So you'll be scowling at her across the breakfast table. That isn't my point.

You look like you're about to puke, he observed, pushing his cart forward. With a quick, inner shake she gathered herself and cut him off to take her rightful position as lead cart. I was trying to imagine you as a kid. It was horrifying.

Everything feels like the end of the world, and you can't reason with someone who can't see tomorrow.

He had destroyed her, so why couldn't she destroy him in return?

Orgasms, for her, had been what she faked with a man and provided herself when she was alone

She hadn't been broken; she'd been furious and hurt, but never broken...

Me abruma su amabilidad. —Sí, lo sé. Sólo superada por el tamaño de mi... ego.

Men were such victims to their own hormones. Machismo had killed a lot more people than PMS.

Mientras tanto, en este lado de la mesa se siente mucha atracción. ¿Qué se siente en el suyo?

If he's in love with someone else, then what does it matter whether or not he's slept with her?

Jay stepped into the room, and for a split second both her heart and lungs seemed to stop functioning. Then her heart lurched into rhythm again, and she drew a deep, painful breath. Tears sprang to her eyes as she stared at the inert form on the white hospital bed, and his name trembled soundlessly on her lips. It didn't seem possible that this ... this could be Steve.