Quotes About Emotion

The memories are so strong that they annihilate the present, and that is of grave danger.

Pues mi ser es bello pero espantoso. Y sólo es bello porque es espantoso.

Leaving out appraisal also would render the biological description of the phenomena of emotion vulnerable to the caricature that emotions without an appraisal phase are meaningless events. It would be more difficult to see how beautiful and amazingly intelligent emotions can be, and how powerfully they can solve problems for us.

When emotion is entirely left out of the reasoning picture, as happens in certain neurological conditions, reason turns out to be even more flawed than when emotion plays bad tricks on our decisions.

The self is a repeatedly reconstructed biological state.

Es terrible darse cuenta de que uno tiene algo cuando lo está perdiendo

If no love is, ah God, what feel I so?

If no love is, ah God, what feel I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he?

Because he loved and lusted and floundered, while she did not, she would be forever free.

Love hate-are they really that different?

Grief is another world. Like the carnal world, it is one where reason doesn't work.

But the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic. There is no adventure I would trade them for; there is no place I would rather have seen. -Thanksgiving in Mongolia, The New Yorker, November 18, 2013 Issue

GRIEF IS A WORLD you walk through skinned, unshelled.

There was a corresponding orbit of moods this obligatory food preparation induced in my mother: no-nonsense competence, spunky pride, and seething resentment. From my mother, I learned that you can make your family feel a wonderful sense of protected indulgence by cooking them something with jolly care. I also learned that you can launch a powerful campaign of resistance by mincing garlic like a martyr.

I love him, oh! I love him; but he won't let himself be loved.

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

The Law is Reason free from Passion.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are therir own

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

Anger Is A Gift

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

They who love in excess also hate in excess.

Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.

Educating the head without educating the heart is no education at all