Quotes About Emotion

Sometimes feeling nothing hurts the most.

There's no shame in crying, you know. You've been so strong, my brave girl, but you don't have to be strong now. There's nobody here but you and me, and you've had a hell of a night. Actually, a hell of a few years. Cry all you want.

When the dizziness subsided, when the waves that buffeted her withdrew, Genevieve was left with one certainty. The tie that bound mothers and daughters was like no other. It was eternal, stronger even than death.

The thing about letting yourself fall in love with a jackass was—you might be in love, but he was still a jackass.

At ten, I couldn't articulate much but I got the message: to be a true historian, you had to mourn amply and well. (spoken by narrator Ava Bigtree in Swamplandia!)

I don't even want to try to understand it, and so begin to mistake it for something else after that, paling shadows of this original feeling, something inaudibly delicate that would not survive the passage into speech.

Now her body was the only place where the memories were preserved.

Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children. After

It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.

If you're short on time, that would be the two-word version of our story: we fell.

Pain collected into deep pockets and I was aware of this painbut somehow I could not seem to feel it. It was like a body-deafness.

If Sawtooth could put words to the brambled knot forming in his throat, he would tell her: Girl, don't go. I am marooned in this place without you. What I feel for you is more than love. It's stronger, peninsular. You connect me to the Mainland. You are my leg of land over dark water.

It's not only the event itself, but the way we explain it to ourselves that causes depression.

feeling means your dealing means your healing

We all rejoice in hearing those 3 words: I love you. Beneath these 3 words are another 3: I get you. It's when we feel understood that we feel most loved.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

It's okay to be scared as long as you use it.

A great man once wrote, "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire." If only I were as eloquent as Mr. de la Rochefoucauld...I miss you, I miss you, I miss you. And I want you. And I need your kiss. And your touch on my skin like a man needs water. Always.

It's not always the distance of a trip that determines its value. Sometimes the best trips are only as far as the circumference of your heart.

Don't see the notes. See the music. See the story it is telling you. Allow the music to change you. Allow it to give you the courage to do whatever you need to

No. I simply love Charleston.

wishing I could read his face, but it was hidden

People have different ways of expressing love. It doesn't mean the love is worth any less.

Love is knowing something is true deep in your heart despite all evidence to the contrary.