Quotes About Emotion

What we call historical memory is a creature of time and place. Emotional and political needs of the present intersect with past events. For memory, like perception, can never be simply factual. All our memories are reconstructions.

She understood his eyes, colder than winter's heart. A man who knew he was dead and couldn't make himself care; you are spared that. Mashiara. His lost love.

Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.

A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair

You wish me to tell you all of my secrets? I am grateful, but I am not in love.

Nothing makes Semirhage weep. She gives tears to others, but she has none herself.

Fear will kill you if you don't control it.

I would burn the world and use my soul for tinder to hear her laugh again.  

A woman's love can be violent. Sometimes they hurt a man worse than they think they have, worse than they mean to. Sometimes, they're even sorry afterwards.

Blood and Bloody Ashes! - Mat in a Wheel of Time

I expect you will not lack for company after I go. Just remember that some women see a man with their hearts, while others see no more than a bauble to wear, no different than a necklace or a bracelet. Remember that i will come back, and I am one who sees with her heart.

A woman forgives but never forgets, A man forgets but never forgives

A girl or a fight, pouting lips or a flashing blade. Whichever dance you're dancing at the moment is always the most fun. Wouldn't you say?

What I love, I destroy, Lews Therin laughed. What I destroy, I love.

Quite often, when a woman was agitated, she tried to soothe others whether they required soothing or not.

Women could compress a great deal into one look.

You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else

Her silence was more eloquent than any words.

You can do nothing with the One Power when emotion rules your mind.

the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife;

He has forgotten how to laugh except in bitterness; there are no tears left in him

Thom smiled back almost as unsteadily; he looked as if he was contemplating a leap from the window.

Your carneira wears part of your soul as a ribbon in her hair forever.