Quotes About Emotional

Powerful, often brilliant beyond comprehension, most of the time he was a wildly emotional hot mess.

You're inviting my rapists into my home.

Like one of them, she's been turned inside out but is still horrifically alive.

when you can't forgive

There is only one antidote to mental suffering, and that is physical pain.

Therefore, dissociation and distraction function as survival skills that offer a sense of distance when we're overwhelmed by stimuli.

What a shame. One loses so much when one can't forgive.

Maggie was crying hard and I rubbed her back. I couldn't stop looking at my dad. "Me, you, Lester, Lucy. We're all good people who have done stupid things. We have to look out for one another, Maggie. Rescue each other even," he said. "You know how to do that better than anyone.

There's no such thing as hurting someone for their own good. There's only hurting someone for your own good.

I had not realized how much anger I held against my heart for all the people who use others as nothing more than tools to build a house for themselves, who wrap chains around others and then claim they have the right and even the obligation to do so.

Art has to ask questions and make you care. Nothing I saw elicited even the slightest emotional response. But maybe that was the point. Maybe love was impossible in the postdigital age. Maybe passion was passé.

I'm pretty good at walking away from things—probably too good, in fact.

you stupid, selfish, philandering coach-class jackass.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

When you think of your mother, the word that occurs to you is too. She hugs you too hard, kisses you too long, asks you too many questions, worries too much about your weight/your love life/your friendships/your future/your water consumption. She loves you with an almost religious fervor. She loves you too much. The love makes you feel embarrassed for her and almost guilty—other than be born, what have you done to deserve such love?

I don't think you can really run away from things. They tend to follow you" -Anya

Zweisamkeit' is the feeling of being alone even when you're with other people.

I have a pain that exists only in my head," she said, once some of her vitality had been restored. "I have had it my whole life. But when I feel that pain, I am incapacitated by it, and I am certain that I can't go on.

Sorry, Maya, but it wasn't exactly a pleasure cruise for me either. The quicker you stop shitting yourself, the quicker we don't have to do this.

No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.

Our recent research indicates that an absence of warmth, acceptance, and support characterizes the early family life of many hoarders, perhaps leading them to form strong emotional attachments to possessions.

Sometimes you can't let go of the past without facing it again.

Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature. And while I occasionally step over the line and into the world of the melodramatic, it is what I must do in order t communicate clearly and effectively.