Quotes About Emotion

Crying can bring such relief.

I have the feeling now that Peter and I share a secret. If he looks at me with those eyes that laugh and wink, then it's just as if a little light goes on inside me. I hope it will remain like this and that we may have many, many more glorious times together!

I feel as if I were about to explode. I know crying would help, but I can't cry. I'm restless.

No one must know that my heart and mind are constantly at war with each other.

Îl iubeam aÈ™a de tare, încât n-am vrut s? privesc adev?rul în fa?? È™i m-am È›inut scai de el.

Love, what is love?

Liebe, was ist Liebe? Ich glaube, daß Liebe etwas ist, was sich eigentlich nicht in Worte fassen lässt. (S.197)

To love someone, I have to admire and respect them.

A little later I felt hopeful and full of expectation again, though my tears were still flowing -- on the inside.

As you can see, I'm currently in the middle of a depression.

Ik voel als ik eraan denk, vandaag nog zijn wang tegen de mijne met dat heerlijke gevoel dat alles goed maakt

Love is a human experience, not a political statement.

Sam said to me the other day, I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops, and this is the exact same way in which I love him.

Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be afraid of wasting any more time obsessing about how you look and how people see you. Be afraid of not getting your writing done.

Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, I hate you, God. That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you've had in months.

But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.

The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just any words, but, if you can, into rhythm and blues.

There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they'd burn me at the stake for feeling so good, so full, so much intense pleasure.

The way I dance is by writing.

Mattie was in love with Daniel, of course; this was the X within the circle on her map: I love Daniel.

Empathy says: You and I are made of the same lovely, heartbroken, and screwed-up stuff.

every single one of us at birth is given an emotional acre all our own.

I started to cry then, and I cried for a long time without making much noise. I cried and cried like a little kid.

You must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this.