Quotes About Emotion

Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

Do not weep. Being is enough. There, that is all. I am done...

One colour. One word. So many shades. The color of african skin, of shadow on snow, of a jay's throat, the color of saxophones at dusk, of orbiting police lights smeared across tenement windows, of a flame's intestines, of the faint tracery of veins visible beneath the ghost-flesh of her forearm's underside, of loneliness, of melancholy. The blues.

There is something in death akin to that which exists in love: both spur men to eloquence.

El amor no abraza, pensaba Rímini: hiere. No inunda, se clava.

Between astonishment and grief, I was tearless

In the box, there was a heart. In his head, there was a voice. It said, Good.

Tell me: do you ever actually remember having a heart, or were you born dead?

can't spend all that time together and then all of a sudden not care if you never see that person again.

She is just Cat. She curls up on my chest whenever I sit down, and goes to sleep. I hope she doesn't miss me. I'm going to miss her.

It hurts," she said.

When something becomes hard to think about, people transfer the discomfort of the thought, to the object of their thinking.

because the fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world, in spite of History.

How many powerful memories are triggered by smell and taste? Your mothers old perfume, the smell your fathers breath, the taste of the soap theyd make you eat.

Death is, and must be, deeply emotional. To intentionally cause death is to engender a form of intimacy, one that we're not used to thinking about. To kill without emotion and without respect, or to ignore the intimacy inherent in the act, is to rob it of its dignity, and to rob the life that you are ending of its significance. By robbing death and life of significance we reduce ourselves to the machines Descartes dreamed about. And we deny our own significance.

Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.

The thing about human beings they're not emotional enough, but they are sure enough with a heart of coldness. -MillYentei

War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

Time takes away the grief of men.

We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.

We are not rational creatures who feel; we are emotional creatures who rationalize.

In the absence of conceptual clarity, the dominant emotion is fear, fear of losing opportunities, fear of threats, fear of achievement, fear of abandonment, fear of invalidation. The emotion of fear impacts the way we think and what we believe. It contaminates the filtering of sensations and choice of responses. It creates a vicious cycle where atma is eclipsed by aham, our judgemental self.