Quotes About Emotion

Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment.

keeps him in her

But human motivation is also a thing of the mind, and fear has never been the strongest emotion. Throughout history, people have risked their lives for love, for patriotism, for principle, and for God far more often than fear has made them run away. Upon that fact depends progress.

A face is a kind of a mask anyway, when you think about it, he said. Rudd took a drink and set the glass down. You should never ask Pierre anything. You don't make your face, said Pierre. It's given to you. You might think it represents your true self, but why would it? Half the time you make an expression and think, Oh, this is my whatever expression, and nobody even knows what you're thinking.

Louise closed her eyes. She could not define what she was feeling but knew no other way to express it than to say that she loved him. So that's what she said. It occurred to her that you only get glimpses of love, your whole life, just bits and pieces.

It was not that her life was so tragic but that she found gloom more interesting than the everyday world.

The fact that he hated and feared his new environment was largely beside the point, for he had been taught long ago that what he thought and felt about any given subject was without question the least important thing in the world.

I'm perfectly cheerful, thank you,' said Flosshilde coldly.

poetry is the heart and brain divided by the lungs

Next time she'd have to ask him to keep the light on while he did it, so she could watch his face. That was the best part of the whole thing as far as she was concerned, the way a guy's face contorted so violently and then relaxed, as if some terrible mystery had just been solved.

I could spend the whole afternoon telling you about him, but it's not gonna do much good, is it? You never smelled his hair after he just got out of the bath, or carried him from the car after he'd fallen asleep on the way home, or heard the way he laughed when someone tickled him. So you'll just have to take my word for it: He was a great kid and he made you glad to be alive.

But it wasn't really about her looks; there was just this current running between us, a really strong connection. Her absence always felt abrupt and unfair when we parted at the end of the day, like someone had unplugged the radio in the middle of a good song. (Page 37)

No one knows what love is, he told me. If someone says they do, they're full of shit.

Have you hugged your customers lately? Have you told 'em you care? Have you reached out boldly and said 'We know you're there?

To remember a person is the most important thing

Never be afraid to love, not even when there's a chance you're not being loved in return.

Dreamily the Princess stood up. I'm not sure if I can walk, she said. Then I'll carry you. Is that what love is? I no longer know what love is. A week ago I had a lot of ideas. What love is and how to make it stay. Now that I'm in love, I haven't a clue. Now that I'm in love, I'm completely stupid on the subject.

She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.

The only question is how to make love stay.

Your author has found love to be the full trip, emotionally speaking; the grand tour: fall in love, visit both Heaven and Hell for the price of one.

logic limits love, which may be why Descartes never married.

And it rained a screaming. And it rained a rawness. And it rained a plasma. And it rained a disorder.

Though February lay about her shoulders like a cloak of lead.

R]ed hair is slow to lay back once it's got its dandruff up, and her bitchy mood required further opportunity to express itself.