Quotes About Emotion

You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly

When you do something because you're angry, you almost always do the wrong thing.

There is not enough blood in her veins to keep her heart from skipping.

Need is a close kin of love

Krishna means love, she said. But Radha means longing. Longing is older than love. I am older than he. Did you know that, Sita?

Look at any city through the right memories and it could become a graveyard as haunted as a former battlefield.

When too much is too much or too bad is too bad, we laugh as if it was too good.

stop the flow of frustration and anger long enough to cool down your overheated limbic system and give your rational brain some valuable time to catch up.

Since our brains are wired to make us emotional creatures, your first reaction to an event is always going to be an emotional one. You have no control over this part of the process. You do control the thoughts that follow an emotion, and you have a great deal of say in how you react to an emotion—as long as you are aware of it.

I want to cry. Like a serious mushy cry a middle-school girl might do after her favorite vampire couple has a baby or something.

Humans were strange that way, believing they could hoard what they loved like gold and keep it safely hidden away in their vaults.

It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow city streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.

She felt something inside her turn to stone and fall down into her gut, where it lay cold and hard and uncomfortable. Which was impossible, of course. Human organs did not turn to stone and certainly could not shift into the stomach.

if someone smiles at you it does not mean they're happy. It just means "I think that if I smile I might get out of this alive!" [ http://brickmag.com/interview-tsitsi-... ]

Fear is stronger than love

The darkest day of my life was the day I heard of Lincoln's assassination. I did not know what it meant. Here was the rebellion put down in the field, and staring up in the gutters...

A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor.

Is it possible to say It was a beautiful morning at the end of November without feeling like Snoopy?

What does the philosopher say? Odi ergo sum. I hate therefore I am.

You don't fall in love because you fall in love; you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to fall in love. when you feel that need, you have to watch your step: like having drunk a philter, the kind that makes you fall in love with the first thing you meet. It could be a duck-billed platypus.

The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the hearts it inflamed.

Dios ha muerto, el arte dejó de existir, la historia ha llegado a su fin, y yo mismo no me siento del todo bien.

omne animal triste post coitum

Çfarë është dashuria? Nuk ka asgjë në botë qoftë humane apo djallëzore apo çfarëdoqoftë që mund të deportojë në shpirtin e njeriut si dashuria