Quotes About Emotion

I was always certain of your father's love, because when he fell for me I was looking less attractive than a water buffalo

Reason may catnap for a time, but the irrational is more often comatose. In the end it will be the irrational that is forever caged in dreams, while reason gains the day.

He needed her so badly, to reassure himself of his own existence

AÅŸk her ÅŸey deÄŸilse, hiçbir ÅŸeydir.

His smile was the rictus of a beast.

To be imprisoned by the need to be loved was to be sealed in a cell in which one experienced an interminable torment and from which there was no escape.

A man under the enchantment of love," the stowaway thought, "is a man easily distracted and led.

Proximity to calamity released the human capacity for love.

It's the difference, you see, between casual sex and love. The more you love, the more closely you get to know, the more profoundly you see, the more you are enriched.

music was what he feared and hated most, because music slid beneath the thinking mind to seize the heart;

It was plain he needed to love and be loved; there was a tide of emotion in him that needed to wash over people and he hoped for a returning tide to wash over him.

During, he looked away from all the strain, all the scratchiness, all the fights that never got going, he closed his eyes and waited until her smile came back. He allowed himself to believe in that smile, that brilliant counterfeit of joy

Was it possible that his fear of flying had been cured at exactly the moment at which it was perfectly rational to feel afraid?

he perceived that this memory-jumbled rag-bag of material was in fact the very heart of her, her self-portrait, the way she looked in the mirror when nobody else was in the room...

The antidote to joy is dread.

Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love

Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel love and avoid loneliness…. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts. Every waking moment, and even in our dreams, we struggle to direct the flow of sensation, emotion, and cognition towards states of consciousness that we value.

The problem is that most people, most of the time, are desperate to believe ridiculous and divisive ideas for patently emotional reasons,and while rarely explicit what they're really worried about is death

We cannot live by reason alone.

The burn of lifting weights, for instance, would be excruciating if it were a symptom of terminal illness. But because it is associated with health and fitness, most people find it enjoyable. Here we see that cognition and emotion are not separate. The way we think about experience can completely determine how we feel about it.

Different techniques produce long-lasting changes in attention, emotion, cognition, and pain perception, and these correlate with both structural and functional changes in the brain.

I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggling.

Love, you mock us for your sport.

Golf inflicts more pain than any other sport. If you're the sort of person whose self-worth is tied up in how you play, golf will cut you to the core of who you are.