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Emotion Quotes
"Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true."
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"Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong."
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"But, at the moment, when I step on the pitch, when I have the ball I know it's mine. It's just a feeling."
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"It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then."
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"How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is."
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"The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them."
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"The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality."
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"Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa."
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"Remembering and forgiving can be contrary things."
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"There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings."
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"I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily."
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"We all have human emotions that rob our lives."
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"There's surprising relief and regeneration in finding ourselves within a moment of genuine grace, however small or temporary it may be."
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"Some people have a thick skin and you don't. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world."
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"Jude leaped out of arm's reach, and walked along the trackway weeping--not from the pain, though that was keen enough; not from the perception of the flaw in the terrestrial scheme, by which what was good for God's birds was bad for God's gardener; but with the awful sense that he had wholly disgraced himself before he had been a year in the parish, and hence might be a burden to his great-aunt for life."
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"It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock."
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"When there was a choice between love of a woman and hate of a man, her mind could cherish only one emotion, for her love might be a subject for laughter, but no one ever had ever mocked her hatred."
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"We are angrier with the sky than with our actions."
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"When the mainstay of one's world is taken away, it's only natural to cling to all the rest, to try desperately to keep things as close to the way they were as one can." He shook his head sorrowfully. "But no one can ever go back to yesterday."
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"It was one thing to accept I couldn't have Dimitri. It was something entirely different to realize someone else could."
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"That sassy low classy, but dress real cheap-fly-n-fancy, with a chip on her shoulder -- she's just a bitterly wounded dove, wanting to be sieged by love."
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"When we truly allow ourselves to feel our own pain, over time it comes to seem less personal. We start to recognize that what we've perceived as our pain is, at a deeper level, the pain inherent in human existence."
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"He had a nice smile. Seeing it, I felt like I'd won a prize, because he was so sparing with them."
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"When someone points out your past mistakes, look at them dead in the eyes and follow with, 'and I'd do it all again to have the life I have now."
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