Quotes about Emotion
Who would have guessed you'd be crying over that old hay bag." But that wasn't it at all, Elinor saw that from the look on his face when he turned to her. That was the attachment, that was the way he held on to her.
— Alice Hoffman
and want can be a hundred times stronger than need, and a thousand times stronger than common sense. She
— Alice Hoffman
That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do as imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.
— Alice Hoffman
When your father doesn't love you, a stone forms inside of you, hard and sharp enough to pierce through bone.
— Alice Hoffman
She had fallen under water, under a spell, in love with love.
— Alice Hoffman
He told me he wanted the chance to be in love again. He has no idea that being in love is bullshit. It's knowing someone down to their soul that matters. That's what love is. It's difficult and it's real and it doesn't change.
— Alice Hoffman
I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
— Alice Walker
I do not grieve in the abstract, but in the heart.
— Alice Walker
I wish you were with me, or I with you.
— Alice Walker
She was a literal speaker. What she expressed she both felt and was.
— Alice Walker
The joy of the Lord is your strength." Joy is an emotion, and yet it creates something physical. It creates strength.
— Joel Osteen
A life without passion is not living, it's merely existing
— Leo Buscaglia