Quotes About Feelings

After she died and Becky's mother pronounced her judgment, Becky understood what a survival mechanism disdain had been for her aunt, who had few other defenses against an uncaring world. For Becky herself, disdain was more of an emergency measure, taken only when someone directly tried to make her feel bad.

But what do we expect will become of students, successfully cocooned from uncomfortable feelings, once they leave the sanctuary of academe for the boorish badlands of real life?

It was better to be angry than to be hurt; maybe even better than being loved and held by him, because maybe anger was what she'd been feeling toward him all along, anger disguised as wanting.

I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others -- The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad.

The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.

It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.

Sometimes feelings are like that - not positive, not negative, just a lot.

My feelings have never once cared about what they should be.

Only humans can cry tears.

Sadness and joy aren't opposites of each other. They are each the opposite of indifference.

Another reason it would be a good invention is that there are so many times when you know you're feeling a lot of something, but you don't know what the something is.

Me pasé la vida aprendiendo a sentir menos. Cada día sentía menos. ¿Eso es madurar? ¿O es algo peor? Uno no puede protegerse de la tristeza sin protegerse al mismo tiempo de la felicidad».

Another reason it would be a good invention is that there are so many times when you know you're feeling a lot of something, but you don't know what the something is. Am I frustrated? Am I actually just panicky? And that confusion changes your mood, it becomes your mood, and you become a confused, gray person

I spent my life learning how to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

She was a prism through with sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum

She laughed, I love it when she laughs, although the truth is I am not in love with her.

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. Foer, Jonathan Safran (2006-04-04). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel (Kindle Locations 1882-1883). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.

Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.     Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.

Yet we wanted human feeling, gestures free from suspicion, some sympathetic if stammering articulation, half syllables of mystification, a temporary eternal.

What's weird, I said, is that I've never seen you cry. He said, I cry all the time.

Sie war ein Genie der Traurigkeit: Sie badete in Traurigkeit, sie entwirrte die zahlreichen Stränge der Traurigkeit, sie kostete alle zarten Nuancen der Traurigkeit aus. Sie war ein Prisma, durch dass die Traurigkeit in ihr undendlich breit gefächertes Spektrum zerlegt werden kontte.