Quotes about Emotions
He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself.
— William Faulkner
It's not men who cope with death; they resist, try to fight back and get their brains trampled out in consequence; where women just flank it, envelop it in one soft and instantaneous confederation of unresistance like cotton batting or cobwebs, already de-stingered and harmless, not merely reduced to size and usable but even useful like a penniless bachelor or spinster connection always available to fill an empty space or conduct an extra guest down to dinner.
— William Faulkner
I'm scared of him, said Piggy, and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again, it's like asthma an' you can't breathe.
— William Golding
Caminaron juntos, como dos universos distintos de experiencias y sentimientos, incapaces de comunicarse.
— William Golding
Interestingly, there has been significant research done with people experiencing what we call infatuation. When we have this experience we could call falling into infatuation (or falling into romantic interest), chemicals are secreted in the brain, causing light-headedness, dizziness, and a flood of emotions that we can't explain. Certain people trigger that kind of response in us. We are almost instantly drawn to them.
— Chip Ingram
Some of the dumbest things we do are done out of anger and bitterness when someone has wronged us.
— Chip Ingram
You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing.
— Chris Fabry
I wept in my dreams. I dreamed you lay in the grave; I awoke, and the tears still poured down my cheeks. I wept in my dreams, I dreamed you had left me; I awoke and I went on weeping long and bitterly. I wept in my dreams, I dreamed you were still kind to me; I awoke, and still the flow of my tears streams on.
— Heinrich Heine
Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
— Heinrich Heine
May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
— Henry David Thoreau
I know you'll never love me but maybe you'll stay for awhile.
— Henry Rollins
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
— Henry Ward Beecher