Quotes About Feelings

Music was my one way to vent.

I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different feelings.

I'm just constantly on the verge of bursting into tears with joy.

A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.

there is no such thing as a rational person. We are emotional creatures with some token capacity for reason.

And so as much as I can, I care about her, dear Deborah. It's probably not love, but I would rather she were happy.

In short, it is Detective Anderson. He looks up and sees me through the glass, and he smiles. It is not a smile that encourages in me any of the finer feelings. It is instead a smile that says to me, quite clearly, it is time for all Hope to die. Hope obliges.

It's always wonderful to witness the emotional agility that some people with actual feelings can manage, and Vince had just performed a truly acrobatic feat, from concern for my life right to a petty problem he was having at work, all without losing a step. But beyond that, it was interesting in another way. Anderson? Hacking? "Vince, that's not possible," I said. "Anderson can barely work his phone.

As I'd listened in on the conversation, I'd noted what seemed to be disappointment in Loving's voice. I wondered if that was due to his reluctance to cease playing this game with me personally. But that was perhaps projecting my feelings onto him. I

Trying to outrun the blues, I guess. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.

Daily habits can anchor your thoughts and feelings just as readily as any spiritual practice or yoga class.

Kindness here means friendliness, or openheartedness. It enables you to welcome experience. Compassion is usually associated with feelings of empathy and concern for pain or suffering in another.

He remained heartbroken, which meant one of two things: either his love was pure and true and earthshakingly significant; or he was addicted to feeling forlorn, he liked being heartbroken.

Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in sadness, joy, or regret. Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that is oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions.

Every letter was a love letter.

She didn't want to be liberated from her emotions, but to have their importance confirmed.

What was interesting about being the needy one was how much in love you felt. It was almost worth it. This dependency was what Leonard had guarded himself against feeling all his life, but he couldn't do it anymore. He'd lost the ability to be an asshole. Now he was smitten, and it felt both tremendous and scary.

Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in sadness, joy, or regret. Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.

Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy.

Emotion, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in sadness, joy, or regret. Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, the happiness that attends disaster. ...most of my emotions are hybrids. But not all. Some are pure and unadulterated. Jealousy, for instance.

identify the cravings for what they are—a desire to feel better right now.

No, it's not a 'corpse thing.' I feel I lack the emotional capacity to deal with those in mourning...

I never felt a biological tug looking at children. It's not that I'm missing maternal feelings, it's more like they apply only to cats and dogs, possibly small monkeys. While I'm happy for everyone who wants a family, I look at the notion of having kids the same way I look at people who get tattoos on their faces, like, "Hoo-boy, that's permanent.

It's weird how when you don't hang out with someone for a while and then you do again, you miss them. It's like you forget to miss them until they show up to remind you.