Quotes About Emotion

Grief, for me, is a moment-to-moment experience.

Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling.

Grief is a process, not a state.

Grief is exhausting.

Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.

None of us get to divorce ourselves from the world. We walk into the theater and bring all of our grief and our pain and our joy with us.

Grief is a world you walk through skinned, unshelled.

Good horror is about so much more than slashing: it's a way of examining grief and loss of self.

Love has a cost, and it's grief. Because we will always be separated from things we love. That's the nature and price of life, right? But, when you love something deeply, then you're courageous.

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

Here's the thing: 'The Hurt Locker' was an amazing, important film. But did I enjoy it? Of course not. It was very tough to watch and, while gripping, not exactly what you'd call a happy place.

In a film, you only have a finite amount of time, and you're so concerned with saying what happened and making it a gripping short story with a satisfying ending.

I was always drawn to darker sounds, things with an edge and a little bit of grit, things that have a lot of emotion and a lot of drive.

You know, we had that groove; I didn't feel no way.

To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.

With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.

I get pretty grumpy about TV.

Love is not guaranteed.

On September 22, 2002, my mama, Buhlar Hinton, died. When the guards told me, I gave up. She'd been deteriorating for a long time - I believe she died of a broken heart.

If I'm asked which is my favourite character to play, I'll definitely say Rosy from 'Guide' because I feel she is very real.

The heart, not the head, must be the guide.

Music is your guide.

I still got a lot to learn about fashion. I'm somebody who experiments, somebody who's finding their way. I'm young, and I don't really know if there's any guide to style in what's right and what's wrong. I just dress as an extension of how I'm feeling. If I feel crazy, then I'm gonna rock something crazy.

One of poetry's great effects, through its emphasis upon feeling, association, music, and image - things we recognize and respond to even before we understand why - is to guide us toward the part of ourselves so deeply buried that it borders upon the collective.