Quotes About Emotion

But I want her to grow up knowing that I was the first man ever to fall in love with her. I'd always thought the father/daughter thing was overstated. But I can tell you, sometimes, she looks at me and I just become a puddle.

If she doesn't really love you, then it's over. And if she does love you, then love will win out.

I'm aware that Chloe may have no memory of me at all. She's too young. But I want her to grow up knowing that I was the first man ever to fall in love with her.

I had fallen in love, even if she was still finding her way.

Michael should have tried. Jana hated him for not being Romeo. She loved him with all her heart and hated him just the same. He should have killed himself over her. "Dammit, Michael, love me!" Jana said out loud. The words flew from her heart. They were the colour of blood. "Love me, love me, love me!

I couldn't bring this sorrow home. Couldn't tell my wife. Wouldn't tell my children. As my friend Edward Dee says, we live in the worst twenty minutes of someone else's life. So I leave it behind . . . where it happened . . . where it belongs . . . not in my house.

Police officers put up barbed wire around their hearts to protect them.

Rage is fear untethered by caution.

don't see the point in a useless emotional exercises.

Emotion, any emotion, was a symptom of perceived reality, not reality itself.

Racism requires lots and lots of dumb emotion, plus a dose of stupidity.

Anger is a common derivative of fear.

Establishing a rock-solid anchor is the first step to surviving emotional chaos.

If I must die, at least let me die as I have occasionally loved.

Delight, unfortunately, doesn't last. It's like the smile from a beautiful stranger in a stairwell — it's fleeting. It cannot be otherwise — recognition is not an extended process.

Music breaks my heart constantly.

Music is hugely important to me.

It's all just a dance, Pavlov thought. And nothing is more devastating than a dance

Then let's treat all these holy texts as stories, fictions, and imperfections that could excite us to tears or erections.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.

She thought in pictures and feelings, not words.

The most complex capability of the human brain—what I would regard as its cutting edge—is our emotional intelligence. Sitting uneasily at the top of our brain's complex and interconnected hierarchy is our ability to perceive and respond appropriately to emotion, to interact in social situations, to have a moral sense, to get the joke, and to respond emotionally to art and music, among other high-level functions.