Quotes About Emotion

If this was so, I was sunk, for by now I was more in love than I could stand, as if some mineral had got into my veins and arteries and I ached, flesh and bones, the way you will on the verge of the grippe.

All at once he was aware that his angry spirit had stolen forth again and he was about to write letters.

That's from the Middle Ages.' My God! We have a name for everything except what we really think and feel.

Unrequited love. Nowadays called hysterical dependency.

That was nothing to get excited about, as it was one of the commoner human experiences—neither to give a damn nor be given a damn about.

A strange heart. I myself can't account for it.

How lovely she could be! her face was gay and round, pink, the blue of her eyes was clear. Very different from the terrifying menstrual ice of her rages, the look of the murderess.

Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you're picking up the pieces.

People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

The sky was the colour of sad weddings.

La vie oscille, comme un pendule, de la souffrance à l'ennui

If you can imagine the future being brighter, it lifts your energy and gooses the chemistry in your body that produces a sensation of happiness. If you can't even imagine an improved future, you won't be happy no matter how well your life is going right now.

We humans like to think we are creatures of reason. We aren't. The reality is that we make our decisions first and rationalize them later....Your illusion of being a rational person is supported by the fact that sometimes you do act rationally.

Passion feels very democratic. It is the people's talent, available to all. It's also mostly bullshit.

On all the important stuff, we are emotional creatures who make decisions first and rationalize them after the fact.

A good general rule is that people are more influenced by visual persuasion, emotion, repetition, and simplicity than they are by details and facts... On all the important stuff, we are emotional creatures who make decisions first and rationalize them after the fact.

Smiling makes you feel better even

that people are more influenced by visual persuasion, emotion, repetition, and simplicity than they are by details and facts.

A good general rule is that people are more influenced by visual persuasion, emotion, repetition, and simplicity than they are by details and facts.

an almost chemical change seemed to dissolve and recomposethe very elements of his body. A rigour passed over him, blood rose into his cheeks, his forehead, and there was a steady thumping in his ears. It was first love.

The room was darker and smelled of evergreen, as though my mother had been dreaming of trees.

This song came on that sounded unlike anything I had ever heard: an aggressive drum machine pattern, unusual-sounding electronic noises, and of course, on top of it all, that voice. It struck me immediately, so warm and beautiful: The song was "Running Up that Hill (A Deal with God)." It was like a soundtrack to the evening. 

No other man I'd held in my arms--and now, not even I--had blood this pure.

Hey... ¿no está fría? -Aunque sea la nieve del invierno deshecha, es más caliente que el corazón de los hombres...