Quotes About Emotion

Love enters by the eyes and also leaves by the eyes.

I've been in love often enough to be completely exhausted by it, and not to know what it means any more. When you look back afterwards, you can always find another way of putting it. You say, I was obsessed, it was really lust, I was fooling myself, because after you've recovered from being in love, you always decide that that wasn't what it was.

I am ashamed. I play a diminshed chord because I am diminished.

I am ashamed. I play a diminished chord because I am diminished.

she realised suddenly that there was something about music that had never been revealed to her before: it was not merely the production of sweet sound; it was, to those who understood it, an emotional and intellectual odyssey.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

He was the only man she had ever known who made her feel protected. He made her feel safe, secure. And the feeling was strange to her.

Never let them know how you feel or what you are thinking. If they know how you feel they know how to hurt you, and if they hurt you once, they will try again.

Lila brought him to me, my hands still hot from battle, the smell of powder smoke about me, and I took him carefully, for I'd no knowledge of babies, and held him gently and looked in his face, his eyes squinted and dark, his face still red and pinched, but he looked at me and seemed to laugh and grasped my thumb and tugged strongly. Oh, he was a lad, that one!

The idea of love, while always in her mind, had never become quite real to her.

when does a man leave a place he has lived without some regret? For each time some part of him is left behind. So

Yet, might it not be that he secretly loved him? That all this was a mask, a thing to shield him from such an emotion? For few of the Indians we had met thus far regarded the father with veneration, for the maternal uncle was he who drew the respect we gave to a father.

Anxiety is the price tag on human freedom

When I turned the corner, I saw Toni waving at me from the elevator. I think I've already told you how it made me feel to see her smile and wave at me. You can have your sunsets and waterfalls. If a piano were to suddenly fall on my head, that's the image I'd want forever engraved in my mind. —Alton Richard

The bad stuff always rose to the top of the brain.

If Stanley and his father weren't always hopeful, then it wouldn't hurt so much every time their hopes were crushed

She looked around. There was a bulletin board covered with A papers. She looked from one paper to another and hoped, with all her heart, that she'd see one with Bradley's name on it. She didn't.

My dog, Pugsy, was hit by a car

Love and a Dead Rat

He took several long, deep breaths. Then his head jerked violently, and he let out a shrill scream, worse than the one before.

There are some people who are so cold and unfeeling, like reflections in a mirror, that they might as well be imaginary.

someone special.

How odd, I thought, that even though I don't believe it still feels nice to be included.

On the list of qualities necessary to humans trying to make our way through life, truth scores fairly low. Why do people believe and do weird things? Because in the end, feeling alive is more important than telling the truth. We have evolved as living creatures to express ourselves, to be creative, to tell stories. We are instruments for feeling, faith, energy, emotion, significance, belief, but not really truth.