Quotes About Emotion

He kisses -- how do I explain it? Like someone in love. Like he has nothing to lose. Like someone who has just learned a foreign language and can only use the present tense and only the second person. Only now, only you

But he can no more feel sorry for Swift—

Così comincerò dalla fine, dicendovi che siamo tutti il grande amore di qualcuno

Realizing we are no longer in love is not the heartbreaking sensation we imagine when we are in love—because it is no sensation at all. It is a realization made by a bystander.

È quasi impossibile rendere il senso della vera tristezza; è una creatura degli abissi che non può mai comparire alla vista.

It is not true that love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. Love alters all the time; it is fluid, in perceptual flux, an evolving business across a lifetime.

There is no contradiction between loving someone and feeling burdened by that person; indeed, love tends to magnify the burden.

Love is circumstantial; we can love anyone if need be; and losing the one we love is the singular catastrophe. Time does not heal it. Every present moment yearns for even the roughest past.

Anxietatea este, aÈ™adar, suferinÈ›a din cauza a ceea ce se va întâmpla, iar melancolia e suferinÈ›a din cauza a ceea ce s-a întâmplat.

Perhaps depression can best be described as emotional pain that forces itself on us against our will, and then breaks free of its externals.

Depression frequently destroys the power of mind over mood.

one loves and is loved in great pain, and one is alive in the experience of it. It is the walking-death quality of depression that I have tried to eliminate from my life;

All I know is what I have words for." The absence of words is the absence of intimacy; these experiences are starved for language.

To look deep into your child's eyes and see in him both yourself and something utterly strange, and then to develop a zealous attachment to every aspect of him, is to achieve parenthood's self-regarding, yet unselfish, abandon.

As we talked, I came to understand that hope is like a happy childhood; it equips its beneficiaries to deal with the traumas that inevitably ensue. It is experienced as primal love. (p.15)

Mothering requires two impulses- the impulse to hold on, and the impulse to push away.

Really, I think one's art goes only as far and as deep as your love goes

writing fire and watching the syllables burn

He heard a match being struck, the hiss of a gas flame. Then the clanging of a pot, the woman's breathing, the rustle water filling a vessel. He smelled bread. He closed his eyes. I love this world, he thought, and his eyes filled with tears.

He heard a match being struck, the hiss of a gas flame. Then the clanging of a pot, the woman's breathing, the rustle of water filling a vessel. He smelled bread. He closed his eyes. I love this world, he thought, and his eyes filled with tears.

And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.

People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don't look and it's magic

Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.

La gente debe enamorarse con los ojos cerrados.