Quotes About Emotion

Because when you say you miss someone, you also mean you miss the way you were before you started missing someone.

Stop your weeping. Grief is for the dead.

The emotional attitude of man has a greater sway over custom than has reason. The main attitude of a native to other, alien groups is that of hostility and mistrust. The fact that to a native every stranger is an enemy is an ethnographic feature reported from all parts of the world.

Tanto la magia como la religión surgen y funcionan en momentos de carácter emotivo: las crisis de la vida, los fracasos en empresas importantes, la muerte y la iniciación en los misterios de la tribu, el amor infortunado o el odio insatisfecho. Tanto la magia como la religión presentan soluciones ante esas situaciones y atolladeros, ofreciendo no un modo empírico de salir con bien de los tales, sino los ritos y la fe en el dominio de lo sobrenatural.

A burst of passion is a fine rousing thing upon occasion, Helen, and a flood of tears is marvelously affecting, but, when indulged too often, they are both deuced plaguy things for spoiling one's beauty and tiring out one's friends.

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.

Pretending to be cool is exhausting. Yelling

The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen.

Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.

I say to myself, go on seeking, be glad for being sensitive, be glad you're able to go beyond the resistance inside you. It is our resistance to what we experience that makes creativity possible. So don't get rid of resistance like that by going around it or trying to eliminate it. Our own limitations put up strong resistance, but it's because of that that we are creators

Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.

The great chasm between the thing I say, and the thing I would say, would be quite dispiriting to me, in spite even of such kindnesses as yours, if the desire did not master the despondency.

When I am pained, I find the old theory of the uselessness of communicating the circumstances of it, singularly untenable.

The thing that I still come back away with is how close so many people feel to the mountain Mt. Rainier emotionally and psychically, and yet how far away the world is when you're on the mountain.

Of course, a blow job given in friendship isn't the most arousing, but it stays in the memory longer.

Music', said Arkady, 'is a memory bank for finding one's way about the world.

Still, the painful death of that unicorn had been satisfying to watch

What happened to you as an infant has a profound impact on this capacity to love and be loved.

Like people who learn a foreign language later in life, Virginia and Laura will never speak the language of love without an accent.

the more threatened or stressed we are, the less access we have to the smart part of our brain, the cortex

We know that a dysregulated adult cannot regulate a dysregulated child. An exhausted, frustrated, dys-regulated adult can't regulate anybody.

evocative cues"—basically any sensory input, like a sight, sound, smell, taste, or touch—can activate a traumatic memory.

En realidad, no puedes quererte a ti mismo si no has sido y eres querido. No es posible construir la capacidad de amar de forma aislada.